Question
Asked By – Anastasios Andronidis
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?
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Answer
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/[!_]*')
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