I suggest you to take a look at walk function inside the os module [1]; IIRC, on the list you would find a discussion on how to create a wrapper for os.walk with support for filters or wildcards.
Regards. [1] http://docs.python.org/library/os.html?highlight=os.walk#os.walk On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:21 PM, loial <jldunn2...@gmail.com> 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? > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Matteo Landi http://www.matteolandi.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
