File existence check with partial filename

Alf P. Steinbach alfps at start.no
Mon Mar 15 00:24:46 EDT 2010


* Sang-Ho Yun:
> I learned that I can check the existence of a file using
> os.path.isfile("filename").
> 
> What if I need to check if there is a file that contains "HV" in the
> filename?  What should I do?

<code>
     from __future__ import print_function
     import os

     for filename in os.listdir( "." ):
         if "HV" in filename.upper():
             print( filename )
</code>


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf



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