Use glob to match files without a file extension-CodePudding

I am trying to use glob to match all the files in a folder. All the files start with the same word but I forgot to include .txt at the end of them. Is there a way to write the code to get all of these files despite the fact there is no file extension in my directory?

CodePudding user response：

I'm assuming you want to add a .txt file extension from the way you worded your question. You can use a wildcard character (*) anywhere in your glob expression

import glob
import shutil

for file in glob.glob('/path/to/files/commonWord*'):
    shutil.move(file, file   '.txt')

CodePudding user response：

not sure if that is what you want, but this will get all the files/folders that start with the word "california" in the same directory.

So if no folders start with "california" in your directory this will do it

import glob, os

for file_ in glob.glob('california*'):
    os.rename(file_, file_ '.csv')

output1: ['california_housing_train', 'california_housing_test']

output2: ['california_housing_train.csv', 'california_housing_test.csv']

CodePudding user response：

You can take them all and then check by regex whether or not it has an extension and add the file to a list or whatever you want.

import glob
import re

files = glob.glob('*')

for file in files:
    if not re.findall(r'.*\.[a-z] ',file):
        print(file)