Ray Jones wrote:
> The code:
>
> curDir = os.getcwd()
> znDir = shutil.abspath('../')
> baseDir = shutil.abspath('../../')
>
> Files = glob.iglob(os.path.join(znDir, '*'))
> print Files
>
> for moveFile in Files:
> print moveFile
> shutil.move(moveFile, curDir)
>
> Nothing happens. The 'print...moveFile' never happens, even though print
> Files shows it to be an iglob generator object.
>
> After reading over the glob docs and working the directories backward
> manually, I realized that one of the directory names in the znDir path
> begins with '[1st]'. According to the docs, glob is apparently seeing
> that as a character range. No problem, I'll simply escape the '[' and
> ']' with backslashes. I used:
>
> znDir = znDir.replace('[', '\[')
> and then
> znDir = znDir.replace(']', '\]')
>
> No such luck. Glob still does not recognize the file glob in znDir/*.
> Later in the code I will be using creating symbolic links, and I wish to
> use the absolute path rather than the relative path.
>
> Any idea of how to sanitize this path so that I can get glob to work?
Try
znDir = znDir.replace("[", "[[]")
Alternatively use os.listdir(znDir):
[os.path.join(znDir, name) for name in os.listdir(znDir)]
For a non-trivial file pattern:
pattern = "*tmp*.py"
files = [os.path.join(znDir, name) for name in
fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(znDir), pattern)]
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