File existence check with partial filename

Lan Qing efiish at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 06:57:38 EDT 2010


Or use the regular module:

import re
import os

for filename in os.listdir('.'):
    if re.match("*HV*", filename):
          # do something with the file

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alf P. Steinbach <alfps at start.no> wrote:

> * 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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