working with files with the same extenstion

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Ulrich Pfisterer [mailto:ulrich.pfisterer at rmb.co.za] 
> 
> Can anyone please tell me how I would go about doing the 
> following. I would like to write a script that would take in 
> a command line 
> parameter "*.txt". The script would then loop through every 
> file with a 
> "txt" extension and something with it.
> 
> I am brand new to python (I started using it 2 days ago) so I 
> dont know 
> if there is a module that does already this, or whether I have to do 
> all the wildcard matching etc myself.

Welcome to Python.

You're looking for the glob module. (and you'll probably need to
remember that on *nix the command line arguments are expanded by the
shell unless quoted)

-- bjorn