[Tutor] Escaping globs for glob.iglob()

[Ray Jones]

The code:

  curDir = os.getcwd()
  znDir = shutil.abspath('../')
  baseDir = shutil.abspath('../../')

  Files = glob.iglob(os.path.join(znDir, '*'))
  print Files
 
  for moveFile in Files:
    print moveFile
    shutil.move(moveFile, curDir)

Nothing happens. The 'print...moveFile' never happens, even though print
Files shows it to be an iglob generator object.

After reading over the glob docs and working the directories backward
manually, I realized that one of the directory names in the znDir path
begins with '[1st]'. According to the docs, glob is apparently seeing
that as a character range. No problem, I'll simply escape the '[' and
']' with backslashes.  I used:

znDir = znDir.replace('[', '\[')
and then
znDir = znDir.replace(']', '\]')

No such luck. Glob still does not recognize the file glob in znDir/*.
Later in the code I will be using creating symbolic links, and I wish to
use the absolute path rather than the relative path.

Any idea of how to sanitize this path so that I can get glob to work?


Ray