Recursive wildcard file search

[Tim Golden]

[sorry; this got stuck in my outbox]

Robert Dailey wrote:
> Is there a way to perform a recursive file search using wildcards in 
> python 3.0b1?
> 
> For example, if I have:
> 
> C:\foo\abc*xyz.*
> 
> I want all files in C:\foo and all subfolders (recursively) of C:\foo 
> that match the wildcard abc*xyz.* to be matched. In the end, I want a 
> list of files that matched the search, as well as the directory they're 
> located in.

I haven't checked but I doubt this has changed from Python 2.x.
Just use os.walk and filter on what you want. Vaguest and most 
untested code sample:

<code>
import os
import fnmatch

ROOT = "c:/temp"
PATTERN = "*c*.zip"

filepaths = []
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk (ROOT):
 filepaths.extend (
   os.path.join (dirpath, f) for f in fnmatch.filter (filenames, PATTERN)
 )

</code>

If you need to match on directory names as well,
then you'd have to adjust accordingly.

TJG