[Tutor] how to extract number of files from directory

[Kent Johnson]

w chun wrote:
> glob seems to be a good idea, but is there a way to do it 
> case-insensitively, i.e., .jpg and .JPG?
> 
> it may be slower than glob, but i'm finding myself thinking more like...
> 
> len([i for i in os.listdir('tmp') if i.lower().endswith('.jpg')])
> 
> now, anyone with a solution for .jpg, .JPG, .jpeg, *and* .JPEG?

glob.glob('*.[jJ][pP][eE]?[gG]') ??

or maybe (not sure this is legal; I'm pretty sure it's ugly :-)

len([i for i in os.listdir('tmp') for suffix in ['.jpg', '.jpeg'] if i.lower().endswith(suffix)])

Kent

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