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  Re: opening a file Florencio Cano <florencio.cano@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 08:14 +0200
    Re: opening a file Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2011-06-20 12:08 +0200

#8001 — Re: opening a file

> 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

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On 20/06/11 08:14:14, Florencio Cano wrote:
>> 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

The glob module does not do tilde expandsion.
If you want that, you need os.path.expanduser():
http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html#os.path.expanduser

-- HansM

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