python: How to 'ls *.tar'?

Chowroc · 02-28-2006, 12:55 AM

For example:
# ls *.tar
/root/backup.tar

# python
>>> import os
>>> os.listdir('./*.tar')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './*.tar'

Thanks.

spooon · 02-28-2006, 01:35 AM

you can always call the system ls directly with "os.system('ls *.tar')" or something like that

or you could just filter the list returned by os.listdir()

Chowroc · 02-28-2006, 05:00 AM

glob.glob('*.tar')