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

In addition to the suggested answers, you can do this with some lazy generation and list comprehension magic:

import os, glob, itertools

results = itertools.chain.from_iterable(glob.iglob(os.path.join(root,'*.c'))
                                               for root, dirs, files in os.walk('src'))

for f in results: print(f)

Besides fitting in one line and avoiding unnecessary lists in memory, this also has the nice side effect, that you can use it in a way similar to the ** operator, e.g., you could use os.path.join(root, 'some/path/*.c') in order to get all .c files in all sub directories of src that have this structure.