Python glob multiple filetypes

Question

Is there a better way to use glob.glob in python to get a list of multiple file types such as .txt, .mdown, and .markdown? Right now I have something like this:

projectFiles1 = glob.glob( os.path.join(projectDir, '*.txt') ) projectFiles2 = glob.glob( os.path.join(projectDir, '*.mdown') ) projectFiles3 = glob.glob( os.path.join(projectDir, '*.markdown') ) 

Answer 1

Maybe there is a better way, but how about:

import glob types = ('*.pdf', '*.cpp') # the tuple of file types files_grabbed = [] for files in types:     files_grabbed.extend(glob.glob(files))  # files_grabbed is the list of pdf and cpp files 

Perhaps there is another way, so wait in case someone else comes up with a better answer.

Answer 2

glob returns a list: why not just run it multiple times and concatenate the results?

from glob import glob project_files = glob('*.txt') + glob('*.mdown') + glob('*.markdown')