How to open and read an unknown extension file

[Kushal Kumaran]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:00 PM, varnikat t <varnikat22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to do this
> if os.path.exists("*.*.txt"):
>             file=open("*.*.txt")
>             self.text_view.get_buffer().set_text(file.read())
> else:
>             file=open("*.*.html")
>             self.text_view.get_buffer().set_text(file.read())
>
> It gives error *.*.txt not existing....There are two files in the folder
> testing.pnm.txt
> and testing.pnm.html
> How to make it open any name and extension file and read it?
>

os.path.exists does not do pattern matching like that.  Take a look at
the glob module.

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regards,
kushal