On May 14, 4:09 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I want to find all files with the extension "*.txt". > From the examples in "Learning Python, Lutz and Asher" and > from the website I see examples where you also may specify a wildcard > filegroup. > > But when I try this > files = os.listdir('D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt') > > I get an error message > > WindowsError: [Errno 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label > syntax is incorrect: > 'D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt/*.*' > > What am I doing wrong ? > > thanks, > Stef Mientki
You want the glob module http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html import glob glob.glob('*.txt') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list