[Tutor] Executing shell commands

[Mats Wichmann]

On 2/16/20 12:54 AM, Phil wrote:
> On 16/2/20 3:04 pm, Mats Wichmann wrote:
>> you dont need to run an external command to collect the files, look at
>> the glob module and even more apropos the pathlib module. 
> 
> It turned out to be easier that I had expected and this is what I came
> up with:
> 
> from pathlib2 import Path
> from glob import glob
> 
> path = Path("/home/phil/Downloads/")
> 
> for x in path.glob("*.gpx"):
>     print (x)

just note: you don't need the glob import line here, you're asking for
(and getting because you use the qualified name path.glob) the glob
method of the Path object from pathlib.