On Mar 15, 2:04 pm, William Hudspeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am needing to pass an argument to the Popen function of the Subprocess > module that includes a wildcard in the filename. It seems that Popen is > not able to expand wildcards, and treats a filename that includes a > wildcard as a literal. > > EX. > > var1="/path_to_files/filnames*.doc" > result=Popen(["command",var1]).wait() > > Can anyone tell me how I can work around this problem? > > Thanks, Bill
What are you doing, exactly? IF you are just passing in a random filename, you could do something like this: var1 = "/path_to_files_/%s" % (filename) where filename is another variable. You might also look into using os.system which allows just about any command line options to be used. Hope this helps. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
