On 02Jan2015 10:00, Ervin Hegedüs <airw...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 05:13:31PM -0600, Anthony Papillion wrote:
I have a function I'm writing to delete wildcarded files in a directory.
I tried this:
def unlinkFiles():
os.remove("/home/anthony/backup/unix*")
This doesn't seem to work because it's a wildcard filename. What is the
proper way to delete files using wildcards?
Now I didn't checked, but once I've used some like this:
def unlinkFiles():
dirname = "/path/to/dir"
for f in os.listdir(dirname):
if re.match("^unix*$", f):
os.remove(os.path.join(dirname, f))
That is a very expensive way to check the filename in this particular case.
Consider:
if f.startswith('unix'):
instead of using a regular expression.
But generally the OP will probably want to use the glob module to expand the
shell pattern as suggested by others.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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