determine directories with wildcard

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Thomas Rademacher wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I want to collect with the wildcard '*' all existing directories.
> For example:  /dir/dir/*/dir/*/dir/* or C:\dir\dir\*\dir\*\dir\*
> 
> How can I resolve this problem?

This is some sort of pattern matching. What I'd do is to convert your
pattern to a regex:

rex = re.compile(r"/dir/dir/.*/dir/.*/dir/.*")

Then create a list of dirs with os.walk:

dirs = [dirpath for dirpath, foo, bar in os.walk(topdir) if
rex.match(dirpath)]


This is untested, but should do the trick.



-- 
Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch