How to use glob() to find files recursively?

Question

This is what I have:

glob(os.path.join(\'src\',\'*.c\'))

but I want to search the subfolders of src. Something like this would work:

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Answer 1

Here's a solution with nested list comprehensions, os.walk and simple suffix matching instead of glob:

import os
cfiles = [os.path.join(root, filename)
          for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('src')
          for filename in filenames if filename.endswith('.c')]

It can be compressed to a one-liner:

import os;cfiles=[os.path.join(r,f) for r,d,fs in os.walk('src') for f in fs if f.endswith('.c')]

or generalized as a function:

import os

def recursive_glob(rootdir='.', suffix=''):
    return [os.path.join(looproot, filename)
            for looproot, _, filenames in os.walk(rootdir)
            for filename in filenames if filename.endswith(suffix)]

cfiles = recursive_glob('src', '.c')

If you do need full glob style patterns, you can follow Alex's and Bruno's example and use fnmatch:

import fnmatch
import os

def recursive_glob(rootdir='.', pattern='*'):
    return [os.path.join(looproot, filename)
            for looproot, _, filenames in os.walk(rootdir)
            for filename in filenames
            if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, pattern)]

cfiles = recursive_glob('src', '*.c')