Using wildcards with Popen in the Subprocess module

[William Hudspeth]

Hello,

I am needing to pass an argument to the Popen function of the Subprocess
module that includes a wildcard in the filename. It seems that Popen is
not able to expand wildcards, and treats a filename that includes a
wildcard as a literal.

EX.

var1="/path_to_files/filnames*.doc"
result=Popen(["command",var1]).wait()

Can anyone tell me how I can work around this problem?


Thanks, Bill

 

[kyosohma]

Hello,

I am needing to pass an argument to the Popen function of the Subprocess
module that includes a wildcard in the filename. It seems that Popen is
not able to expand wildcards, and treats a filename that includes a
wildcard as a literal.

EX.

var1="/path_to_files/filnames*.doc"
result=Popen(["command",var1]).wait()

Can anyone tell me how I can work around this problem?

Thanks, Bill

What are you doing, exactly? IF you are just passing in a random
filename, you could do something like this:

var1 = "/path_to_files_/%s" % (filename)

where filename is another variable.

You might also look into using os.system which allows just about any
command line options to be used.

Hope this helps.

Mike

 

[Fabio FZero]

You could use glob and expand the resulting list to astring manually,
but you have to make sure the command accepts the "command file1 file2
file3..." format.

FZero