Glob returning an empty list when passed a variable

[Philipp Pagel]

Neil Webster <nswebster at gmail.com> wrote:

> area_name_string = '"*% s*"' % (Area_name)
> os.chdir(Input)
> filename = glob.glob(area_name_string)

Too many quotation marks.

>>> Area_name='Foo'
>>> '"*% s*"' % (Area_name)
'"*Foo*"'

Unless there are files with funny names containing '"' you will not get a
match.

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	Philipp

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