I wanted to select some specific files in my directories

Question

for folder, sub_folders, files in os.walk('D:\\excel'):
    print(f"Currently looking at {folder}")
    print('\n')
    print('The subfolder are: ')
    for sub_fold in sub_folders:
        print(f"Subfolder: {sub_fold}")
    print('\n')
    print("the files are: ")
    for f in files:
        print(f"File: {f}")

I am currently using the os.path to locate all of my files in that current directory, but I only wanted to select files that ended in "RPM_AvgCylP_PStats", I am brand new so I am not really good with the logic.

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Please review the posting guidelines and refrain from using pictures of text in your question. — possum, Feb 14 '21 at 19:07
[str.endswith](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.endswith) — SuperStormer, Feb 14 '21 at 19:15
Does this answer your question? [Get a filtered list of files in a directory](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2225564/get-a-filtered-list-of-files-in-a-directory) — Tomerikoo, Feb 14 '21 at 19:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '21 at 19:25

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if you can, try to use pathlib instead, since this is designed for dealing with tasks like this.

if can't, simply change the last for loop to:

for f in files:
    if f.replace(".txt",'').endswith( "RPM_AvgCylP_PStats"):
        print(f"File: {f}")

answered Feb 14 '21 at 19:25

user3224611

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Why `replace`? Why not just `if f.endswith("RPM_AvgCylP_PStats.txt")`? – Tomerikoo Feb 14 '21 at 19:36
that's almost same. the only difference is that, if there are files without any extension but ends with that string pattern... – user3224611 Feb 14 '21 at 20:09
another way is --> f.split('.')[0].endswith( "RPM_AvgCylP_PStats"): – user3224611 Feb 14 '21 at 20:11
A better option than both is to use `pathlib` and just check for `Path().name` – Tomerikoo Feb 14 '21 at 22:32

I wanted to select some specific files in my directories

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