On Aug 3, 11:21 am, loial <jldunn2...@gmail.com> wrote: > In a unix shell script I can do something like this to look in a > directory and get the name of a file or files into a variable : > > MYFILE=`ls /home/mydir/JOHN*.xml` > > Can I do this in one line in python?
Depends if you count imports. import glob my_files = glob.glob('/home/mydir/JOHN*.xml') Regards, Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list