Question

So I’m trying to use glob.glob to to go through a user-given path to Python and then finding all subsequent folders for a .txt. Currently, below, is what I have but it doesn’t seem to work.

fileName = raw_input("> ")
listOfTxt = []
for files in glob.glob(os.path.join(fileName, "\\Folder\\*\\*\\*.txt")):
     listOfTxt.append(files) # add it to the list

I’m not sure how to get this to work, or I’m just not understanding the glob.glob with os.path.

Answer 1

If you simply want a list of all .txt files in os.path.join(user_dir,'Folder'), then os.walk is probably a better way to go:

 import os
 user_dir = os.path.join(raw_input('> '),'Folder')
 file_list = [ ]
 for dirpath,_,filenames in  os.path.walk(user_dir):
     for name in filenames:
         if name.endswith('.txt'):
             file_list.append(os.path.join(user_dir,dirpath,name))