Pattern for extracting paths where filename starts with 0/ 1 using pathlib glob

Question

I tried using normal python regex patterns in pathlib glob but it's not working.
While reading online I came to know that the glob patterns are quite different.
I did not found the pattern online which I was looking for.

I have:
a folder named images like:

from pathlib import Path

print(list(Path('./images').glob("*")))

gives:

[WindowsPath('images/01.jpg'),
 WindowsPath('images/11.jpg'),
 WindowsPath('images/010.jpg'),
... ]

I want glob to extract only those images whose name starts with 0 like 01.jpg & 010.jpg & not 11.jpg
What will be the pattern to achieve this!

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '20 at 03:43

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Try using pathlib's iterdir and startswith

p = Path('./images')
for pth in p.iterdir():
    if pth.name.startswith('0'):
        print(pth)

images/01.jpg
images/010.jpg

answered Jul 30 '20 at 03:43

Pygirl

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The edited ans works! So that means we dont have specific pattern for this problem & need to use this approach.... – luckyCasualGuy Jul 30 '20 at 03:48
Yes this only requires to get the name and check whether they start from 0 or not. – Pygirl Jul 30 '20 at 03:49
Hay! it turns out that my images folder also has some txt files how can I filter them out... – luckyCasualGuy Jul 30 '20 at 03:54
`if pth.name.startswith('0') and pth.name.endswith(".txt")` You have endswith also. – Pygirl Jul 30 '20 at 03:55

Pattern for extracting paths where filename starts with 0/ 1 using pathlib glob

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