python - Use wildcard with os.path.isfile()

Question

I'd like to check if there are any .rar files in a directory. It doesn’t need to be recursive.

Using wildcard with os.path.isfile() was my best guess, but it doesn't work. What can I do then?

Answer 1

glob is what you need.

>>> import glob
>>> glob.glob('*.rar')   # all rar files within the directory, in this case the current working one

os.path.isfile() returns True if a path is an existing regular file. So that is used for checking whether a file already exists and doesn't support wildcards. glob does.