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glob exclude pattern

I have a directory with a bunch of files inside: eee2314, asd3442 ... and eph.

I want to exclude all files that start with eph with the glob function.

How can I do it?

Solution

  • The pattern rules for glob are not regular expressions. Instead, they follow standard Unix path expansion rules. There are only a few special characters: two different wild-cards, and character ranges are supported [from pymotw: glob – Filename pattern matching].

    So you can exclude some files with patterns.
    For example to exclude manifests files (files starting with _) with glob, you can use:

    files = glob.glob('files_path/[!_]*')