file find module

[Peter Hansen]

Chris Gonnerman wrote:
> Peter Hansen wrote:
> > Just be careful because glob.glob('*') will not return filenames
> > that start with a period, while glob.glob('.*') will return only
> > such filenames.  You need both if you want all files.
> 
> Use os.listdir() and write your own matching function if the dotfiles
> become a problem.

... and write code to prepend the full path to the matched files

... and recurse to support multi-segment matching: glob.glob('*/*/*.c')

... and ? probably some other things that aren't immediately apparent

(It's likely easier to use glob in many cases, which is why
I think it's still a nice option, just one which ought to have
improved documentation for non-Unix heads...)

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Peter Hansen, P.Eng.
peter at engcorp.com