Question

I’m looking to iterate a script over all files in the present working directory without iterating over scripts (so any extension .py). I was prevously using this

for fileName in os.listdir('.'):
    if fileName != 'autocorrelation1.py':
        with open(fileName, "r") as input:

        REST OF SCRIPT HERE

Which worked when I only had the one script autocorrelation.py in the folder, but now I have a few python scripts I was wondering if there were a bash-style equivalent of * for example

for fileName in os.listdir('.'):
    if fileName != *'.py':
        with open(fileName, "r") as input:

        REST OF SCRIPT HERE

I guess I am being lazy and could do it in another line of code but was just wondering if anyone knew a more fun way!

Answer 1

I recommend using the fnmatch module:

for fileName in os.listdir('.'):
    if not fnmatch.fnmatch(fileName, '*.py'):
        print fileName

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The glob module could help you find matching files, if that was what you wanted:

for fileName in glob.glob('*.py'):
    print fileName