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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:14:14 +0200
Subject: Re: opening a file
From: Florencio Cano <florencio.cano@gmail.com>
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> This works:
> infile=open('/foo/bar/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r')
>
> This doesn't:
> infile=open('~/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r')
>
> Can't I work with files using Unix expressions?

You can use the glob module:
http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html#module-glob