HI,
Am 22.11.2010 um 23:05 schrieb Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens: > Am 22.11.2010 22:43, schrieb Martin Lundberg; >> >> I want to be able to let the user enter paths like this: >> apps/name/**/*.js >> and then find all the matching files in apps/name and all its >> subdirectories. However I found out that Python's glob function >> doesn't support the recursive ** wildcard. Is there any 3rd party glob >> function which do support **? >> > os.walk() or os.path.walk() can be used. > You need to traverse the file system. > AFAIK there is no support for this. Or python only: ---------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env python import os, fnmatch # generator: def find_files(directory, pattern): for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory): for basename in files: if fnmatch.fnmatch(basename, pattern): filename = os.path.join(root, basename) yield filename # process each file as it is found: for filename in find_files('apps/name', '*.js'): print 'found java source:', filename ---------------------------------------------------------- Found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2186525/use-a-glob-to-find-files-recursively-in-python Have a nice day -- kurt.alfred.muel...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list