Use fnmatch.filter to filter files by more than one possible file extension

Question

Given the following piece of python code:

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
    for filename in fnmatch.filter(files, \'*.png\'):
        pass
         


        

Answer 1

Please try this:

# pattern_list = ['*.jpg', '__.*']
def checkFilepatter(filename, pattern_list):
    for pattern in pattern_list:
        if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, pattern):
            return True
    return False