Well, the listdir doesn't support "wildcard", for example,
listdir("*.app"). I know the glob is kind of unix shell style expanding, but
my program is running under windows, it's my tiny script to walk through a
huge directory in my NAS. And there are many directories named with "[]" and
"()" characters amid. May the only way is to program a filter on the
listdir.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Shashwat Anand <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

>
> Shashwat Anand <anand.shashwat@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> glob module does not provide what you want.
> As a workaround you can try:
>
> os.listdir("c:\abc\afolderwith[test]")
>
> 07:02:52 l0nwlf-MBP:Desktop $ ls -R test\[123\]/
> 1 2 3
> >>> os.listdir('/Users/l0nwlf/Desktop/test[123]')
> ['1', '2', '3']
>
> Changing type to 'Feature Request'
>
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> status: pending -> open
> type: behavior -> feature request
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