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Suppose I have a subdirectory of symlinks that looks like the following:
subdir/
folder/
readme.txt
symlink/ => ../hidden/
hidden/
readme.txt
If I run the following code:
>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> list(Path('./subdir/').glob('**/readme.txt'))
I would expect the outcome to be:
subdir/folder/readme.txt
subdir/symlink/readme.txt
But the actual result is:
subdir/folder/readme.txt
I found out that this is because (for some undocumented reason) the ** operator doesn't follow symlinks.
Is there a way to change this configuration pragmatically?
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glob does not follow symlinks - Python tracker. This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only. For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.
We can use the function glob. glob() or glob. iglob() directly from glob module to retrieve paths recursively from inside the directories/files and subdirectories/subfiles. Note: When recursive is set True “ ** ” followed by path separator ('./**/') will match any files or directories.
Python glob. glob() method returns a list of files or folders that matches the path specified in the pathname argument. This function takes two arguments, namely pathname, and recursive flag. pathname : Absolute (with full path and the file name) or relative (with UNIX shell-style wildcards).
glob (short for global) is used to return all file paths that match a specific pattern. We can use glob to search for a specific file pattern, or perhaps more usefully, search for files where the filename matches a certain pattern by using wildcard characters.
pathlib.glob also doesn't work for me with ** and symlinks. I've found related issue https://bugs.python.org/issue33428.
As an alternative for Python3 you could use glob.glob with ** and recursive=True option (see details https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html)
In [67]: from glob import glob
In [71]: list(glob("./**/readme.txt", recursive=True))
Out[71]:
['./hidden/readme.txt',
'./subdir/folder/readme.txt',
'./subdir/symlink/readme.txt']
In [73]: list(glob("./**/readme.txt", recursive=False))
Out[73]: ['./hidden/readme.txt']
Compare to:
In [72]: list(Path('.').glob('**/readme.txt'))
Out[72]: [PosixPath('hidden/readme.txt'), PosixPath('subdir/folder/readme.txt')]
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