In Python 3.5 and newer use the new recursive **/
functionality:
configfiles = glob.glob('C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1/**/*.txt', recursive=True)
When recursive
is set, **
followed by a path separator matches 0 or more subdirectories.
In earlier Python versions, glob.glob()
cannot list files in subdirectories recursively.
In that case I'd use os.walk()
combined with fnmatch.filter()
instead:
import os
import fnmatch
path = 'C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1'
configfiles = [os.path.join(dirpath, f)
for dirpath, dirnames, files in os.walk(path)
for f in fnmatch.filter(files, '*.txt')]
This'll walk your directories recursively and return all absolute pathnames to matching .txt
files. In this specific case the fnmatch.filter()
may be overkill, you could also use a .endswith()
test:
import os
path = 'C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1'
configfiles = [os.path.join(dirpath, f)
for dirpath, dirnames, files in os.walk(path)
for f in files if f.endswith('.txt')]