I understand file globbing in Python3 very well. However, the official Python3 documentation did not have anything on what I want to ask. I have a folder with many Xaiml files (XML databases for Betabots). I am grouping certain files together. For instance, I used
glob.glob('./temp/xaiml2/[IiJjKkLlPpQqRr]*.[Xx][Aa][Ii][Mm][Ll]')
so that I could later put these files into one file. Here is the challenge, I want to group files together that start with S, s, T, t, U, u, V, v, and dict8. Yes, files starting with a full string that may have other characters after it. I have tried doing code like [SsTtUuVv'dict8'], but the glob command does not like that ('SyntaxError: invalid syntax'). Is this possible, and if so, how? Is glob.glob even the right command for this use?
You will need to use os.listdir() to get the directory contents, and then re.match() to match the filename contents.
[f for f in os.listdir(somedir) if re.match(r'([s-v]|dict8).*\.xaiml', f, re.I)]