Newbie Using "Programming Python" 1st Ed. Question

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Gerson Kurz fed this fish to the penguins on Monday 16 December 2002 
09:15 am:


> b) Expand it yourself, e.g. using
> 
> import os, fnmatch
> 
> def expand_wildcards(pattern):
>     # get name of directory without wildcards
>     dirname = os.path.dirname(pattern)
> 
>     # get name of pattern
>     pattern = os.path.basename(pattern)
> 
>     # list all files
>     return fnmatch.filter( os.listdir(dirname), pattern )
>

        Might it not be faster just to ...

import glob

filelist = glob.glob(name) #using the original poster's variable

and nest a loop:

for name in sys.argv[1:]:
        for fid in glob.glob(name):
                input = open(fid,'r')
...


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