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luckyCasualGuy
luckyCasualGuy

Reputation: 691

Exclude a dir when using pathlib glob

lets say I have a dir named root

from pathlib import Path

root = Path('./root')
print(sorted(root.glob('*')))

Output:

[WindowsPath('G:/root/0'),
WindowsPath('G:/root/1'),
WindowsPath('G:/root/2'),
WindowsPath('G:/root/3')]

I want to exclude dir WindowsPath('G:/root/0') & get this output using glob()

[WindowsPath('G:/root/1'),
WindowsPath('G:/root/2'),
WindowsPath('G:/root/3')]

I would also like to know how to exclude multiple such dirs using glob()
say this time I want to exclude WindowsPath('G:/root/0') & WindowsPath('G:/root/3')

If I cannot do this using glob(), other suggestions will be appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2072

Answers (1)

Niklas Mertsch
Niklas Mertsch

Reputation: 1489

Path.glob() can not exclude paths (see documentation).

But you can filter the results afterwards, e.g. by using a list comprehension:

from pathlib import Path

root = Path('./root')
all_paths = sorted(root.glob('*'))
exclude_paths = [WindowsPath('G:/root/0'), WindowsPath('G:/root/3')]
filtered_paths = [path for path in all_paths if path not in exclude_paths]

Upvotes: 2

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