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Recursive glob in Python: Find all files matching a glob-style pattern. Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/2186565/6191541
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recursive_glob.py
import os
import fnmatch
def recursive_glob(rootdir='.', pattern='*'):
"""Search recursively for files matching a specified pattern.
Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2186525/use-a-glob-to-find-files-recursively-in-python
"""
matches = []
for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(rootdir):
for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, pattern):
matches.append(os.path.join(root, filename))
return matches
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Arrrlex commented May 25, 2018 •
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You could also write a recursive version of iglob like this:

def recursive_iglob(rootdir='.', pattern='*'):
    for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(rootdir):
        for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, pattern):
            yield os.path.join(root, filename)

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