Look for a list of files on the file system with names matching a pattern

Pattern rules follow standard Unix path expansion rules

*, matches zero or more characters

?, matches any single character

[a-z] or [0-9], character range to match one of several characters

import glob

glob.glob('*') # get files under current directory
glob.glob('*.py') # get py files under current directory
glob.glob('p2/*') # get files under a subdirectory

glob.glob('p?.py') # wildcard character representing a single character

glob.glob('p[0-9].py') # character range

glob.glob(glob.escape('[')+'.py') # escape special characters
		

import glob

glob.glob('**/*.py', recursive=True) # support for recursive globs using **
        

from pathlib import Path

[str(path) for path in Path('.').rglob('*.py')]
        

import os

files = []
for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('.'):
    for filename in filenames:
        if filename.endswith('.py'):
            files.append(os.path.join(root, filename))
        

glob.glob('../*.py')
glob.glob('./*.py')
        

glob.glob('/Users/lin/Documents/Skills/Python/*.py')
        

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