Ops I miss the "one line" request, so my previous answer was definitely OT.
glob seems to be your solution. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/08/10, Alex Willmer ([email protected]) wrote: >> On Aug 3, 11:21?am, loial <[email protected]> wrote: >> > In a unix shell script I can do something like this to look in a >> > directory and get the name of a file or files into a variable : >> > >> > MYFILE=`ls /home/mydir/JOHN*.xml` >> > >> > Can I do this in one line in python? >> >> import glob >> my_files = glob.glob('/home/mydir/JOHN*.xml') > > import os; my_files = [f for f in os.listdir('/home/mydir/') if 'JOHN' in f > and 'xml' in f] > > But in fact glob uses os.listdir and fnmatch.fnmatch functions > internally, so is definitely the way to go. > > http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html > > -- > Rory Campbell-Lange > [email protected] > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Matteo Landi http://www.matteolandi.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
