appending * to glob returns files with '*' !!

[John [H2O]]

I have a glob.glob search:

searchstring = os.path.join('p ath'+'EN*')
files = glob.glob(searc hstring)
for f in files:
print f


___
This returns some files:
EN082333
EN092334
EN*

My routine cannot handle the '*' and it should'nt be returned anyway? :-/

A bug?



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[Sean DiZazzo]

Re: appending * to glob returns files with '*' !!

On Sep 19, 1:37 pm, "John [H2O]" <washa...@gmail .comwrote:

I have a glob.glob search:
>
searchstring = os.path.join('p ath'+'EN*')

shouldn't that be os.path.join(pa th, 'EN*') ?

___
This returns some files:
EN082333
EN092334
EN*

Mine doesn't return that last string.

>
My routine cannot handle the '*' and it should'nt be returned anyway? :-/
>

Well, its an easy fix.

files = glob.glob(searc hstring)
for f in files:
if not f[-1] =="*":
print f

A bug?

Post a small *tested* example that recreates the error on your system.

~Sean

[alex23]

Re: appending * to glob returns files with '*' !!

On Sep 20, 6:37 am, "John [H2O]" <washa...@gmail .comwrote:

My routine cannot handle the '*' and it should'nt be returned anyway? :-/
>
A bug?

Not at all. That's the same behaviour you'll get if you do 'ls EN*'.

In your case, you're asking to match on anything that begins with EN,
a subset of files that -includes- EN*.

Why do you consider this behaviour surprising?

[Erik Max Francis]

Re: appending * to glob returns files with '*' !!

John [H2O] wrote:

I have a glob.glob search:
>
searchstring = os.path.join('p ath'+'EN*')
files = glob.glob(searc hstring)
for f in files:
print f
>
>
___
This returns some files:
EN082333
EN092334
EN*
>
My routine cannot handle the '*' and it should'nt be returned anyway? :-/
>
A bug?

No, it means you actually have a file named 'EN*' in the directory.

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[John [H2O]]

Re: appending * to glob returns files with '*' !!


No bug indeed, Erik was correct, in fact I had files with the * in the
name...

Thanks all for your replies!


Erik Max Francis wrote:

>
John [H2O] wrote:
>

>I have a glob.glob search:
>>
>searchstring = os.path.join('p ath'+'EN*')
>files = glob.glob(searc hstring)
>for f in files:
> print f
>>
>>
>___
>This returns some files:
>EN082333
>EN092334
>EN*
>>
>My routine cannot handle the '*' and it should'nt be returned anyway? :-/
>>
>A bug?

>
No, it means you actually have a file named 'EN*' in the directory.
>
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