I try to loop over all files matching a certain extension, including those inside hidden folders. So far I haven't found a way to do this with iglob
.
This works for all folder except those starting with a dot:
import glob
for filename in glob.iglob('/path/**/*.ext', recursive=True):
print(filename)
I have tried to add the dot as an optional character to no avail. I'd really like to use glob
instead of residing to os.walk
.
How to include all files/folders, even those starting with .
, with glob
?
To use Glob() to find files recursively, you need Python 3.5+. The glob module supports the "**" directive(which is parsed only if you pass recursive flag) which tells python to look recursively in the directories.
To get a list of all the files and folders in a particular directory in the filesystem, use os. listdir() in legacy versions of Python or os. scandir() in Python 3. x.
To show hidden files, you need to include the /a:h modifier in that command. So, dir /a:h C:your-folder will do the trick. CMD also has specific commands for showing directories and folders. /a:d shows all hidden directories, and /a shows hidden folders.
I had this same issue and wished glob.glob had an optional parameter to include dot files. I wanted to be able to include ALL dot files in ALL directories including directories that start with dot. Its just not possible to do this with glob.glob. However I found that Python has pathlib standard module which has a glob function which operates differently, it will include dot files. The function operates a little differently, in particular it does not return a list of strings, but instead path objects. However I used the following
files=[]
file_refs = pathlib.Path(".").glob(pattern)
for file in file_refs:
files.append(str(file))
The other noticeable difference I found was a glob pattern ending with **. This returned nothing in the pathlib version but would return all the files in the glob.glob one. To get the same results I added a line to check if the pattern ended with ** and if so then append /* to it.
The following code is a replacement for your example that include the files in directories starting with dot
import pathlib
for fileref in pathlib.Path('/path/').glob('**/*.ext'):
filename = str(fileref)
print(filename)
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