Re: os.listdir(<file specifications>) doesn't work ??

On May 14, 4:09 pm, Stef Mientki <S.Mientki-nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
hello,

I want to find all files with the extension "*.txt".
From the examples in "Learning Python, Lutz and Asher" and
from the website I see examples where you also may specify a wildcard filegroup.

But when I try this
files = os.listdir('D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt')

I get an error message

WindowsError: [Errno 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect:
'D:\\akto_yk\\yk_controle\\*.txt/*.*'

What am I doing wrong ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki

You want the glob module

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html

import glob
glob.glob('*.txt')


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