Open file knowing only a part of its name

Question

I\'m currently reading a file and importing the data in it with the line:

# Read data from file.
data = np.loadtxt(join(mypath, \'file.data\'), unpack=True)
         


        

Answer 1

Try

import os

[os.path.join(root, f) for root, _, files in os.walk(mypath)
                       for f in files
                       if f.startswith('file') and f.endswith('.data')]

It'll return a list of all files file*.data, in case there are more than one. You can just iterate through them. If there is only one file, then just put [0] at then end of the list comprehension.