I have the below files in a directory.
Directory: /home/user_name/files/
pytest.py
jobrun.log
First_new_2021-09-17.log
Last_new_2021-09-17.log
First_new_2021-09-16.log
Last_new_2021-09-16.log
My expected output is to list only those files which have new and the date should be matching the current date.
Expected output:
First_new_2021-09-17.log
Last_new_2021-09-17.log
How to achieve this in python.
You can start by using python's in-build library glob.
Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html\
import time
from glob import glob
###Since you are working in the same directory, you can simply call glob to find all the files with the extention '.log' by using the wildcard expression '*'.
###Now to get current date you can use time module
today_date = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
file_loc = glob(f'*{today_date}.log')
print(file_loc)
you can use os
import datetime
import os
thedate = datetime.datetime.now()
filelist = [ f for f in os.listdir(mydir) if thedate.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") in f ]
Last_2021-09-17.log and Last_2021-09-17.pdf which is not a valid resultPathlib implementation:
from pathlib import Path
from datetime import date
folder = Path("/home/user_name/files/")
today = date.today()
match = today.strftime("*new_%Y-%m-%d.log")
matching = [fp for fp in folder.glob(match)]
print(matching)
Probably your solution should look like:
import datetime
import re
import os
today = datetime.date.today() # date today
f_date = today.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") # format the string
pattern = re.compile(fr"[\w]+_new_{f_date}.log") # create a pattern to match your files with
result = []
for path, dirs, files in os.walk('/home/user_name/files/'): # iterate over the directories
for file in files: # iterate over each file in the current directory
res = pattern.match(file) # find match
if res := res.group(0): # get name matching the result
result.append(res) # append name to a list of results
print(result)
glob().