Python Glob Module #

glob – useful when working with multiples files. Stores files as a list.

Module #

import glob

Grab files with specified ending #

files = glob.glob("<directory>/*.<file ending>")

files would be a list.

Once this is done, something like this is viable:

for file in files:
    print(file) # this is silly

Or read them line by line:

for file in files:
    with open(file, 'r') as f: # context manager
        lines = f.readlines()
        for line in lines:
            print(line)

Recursive glob #

To search for a particular filename pattern recursively within a directory:

files = glob.glob("<directory>/**/<file pattern>", recursive=True)