On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:29:02 +0200
tutor-requ...@python.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:54:55 -0400
> From: Vineeth Rakesh <vineethrak...@gmail.com>
> To: tutor@python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] Help return a pattern from list
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> Hello all,
>
> Can some one help me to return a special pattern from a list.
>
> say list =
> ["something1.mp3","something2.mp3","something4.pdf","something5.odt"]
>
> now say I just need to return the files with .mp3 extension. How to
> go about doing this?
>
> Thanks
> Vin
I use the fnmatch module:
import fnmatch
fileList =
["something1.mp3","something2.mp3","something4.pdf","something5.odt"]
pattern='*.mp3'
for x in fnmatch.filter(fileList,pattern):
#do something to your files or list items here
thomas
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