On 20/06/11 08:14:14, Florencio Cano wrote:
This works:
infile=open('/foo/bar/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r')

This doesn't:
infile=open('~/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r')

Can't I work with files using Unix expressions?

You can use the glob module:
http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html#module-glob

The glob module does not do tilde expandsion.
If you want that, you need os.path.expanduser():
http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html#os.path.expanduser

-- HansM

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