I need to list all files in the current directory (.) (including all sub directories), and exclude some files as how .gitignore works (http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore) With fnmatch (https://docs...

Consider this pattern: *.py. It matches all the paths ending with the py extension. Now, is it possible to find a pattern which matches everything else? I thought this would do it: *[!.][!p][!y], ...

How do I count only the files in a directory? This counts the directory itself as a file: len(glob.glob('*'))

i'm trying to set rules for set branches on my repo, but having issues with the pattern to apply only to specific branches. ie rule to apply only to brances master,develop,release Issue: the patter...

Consider the following two patterns in a .gitignore file foo/* foo/** The pattern format specification states: An asterisk * matches anything except a slash. [...] A trailing /** matches everyt...

I'm only able to match simple patterns like: "[0-9]" with fnmatch("[0-9]", tocheck, 0). If I try something more complicated with ? or . or even a combination of these how do I u...

I want to open a series of subfolders in a folder and find some text files and print some lines of the text files. I am using this: configfiles = glob.glob('C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1/*.txt'...

I would like to list all files recursively in a directory. I currently have a directory structure like this: src/main.c src/dir/file1.c src/another-dir/file2.c src/another-dir/nested/files/file3.c...

Is there any built-in or straightforward way to match paths recursively with double asterisk, e.g. like zsh does? For example, with path = 'foo/bar/ham/spam/eggs.py' I can use fnmatch to test ...

What would be the simplest way to have .gitignore style fnmatch() with Python. Looks like that stdlib does not provide a match() function which would match a path spec against an UNIX style path re...

I'm using a recursive glob to find and copy files from a drive to another def recursive_glob(treeroot, pattern): results = [] for base, dirs, files in os.walk(treeroot): goodfiles = fnmatch.fil...

There was a small debate regarding the speed of fnmatch over pathinfo here : how to check if file is php? I wasn't totally convinced so decided to benchmark the two functions. Using dynamic and sta...