How can I search sub-folders using glob.glob module? [duplicate]

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In Python 3.5 and newer use the new recursive **/ functionality:

configfiles = glob.glob('C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1/**/*.txt', recursive=True)

When recursive is set, ** followed by a path separator matches 0 or more subdirectories.

In earlier Python versions, glob.glob() cannot list files in subdirectories recursively.

In that case I’d use os.walk() combined with fnmatch.filter() instead:

import os
import fnmatch

path="C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1"

configfiles = [os.path.join(dirpath, f)
    for dirpath, dirnames, files in os.walk(path)
    for f in fnmatch.filter(files, '*.txt')]

This’ll walk your directories recursively and return all absolute pathnames to matching .txt files. In this specific case the fnmatch.filter() may be overkill, you could also use a .endswith() test:

import os

path="C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1"

configfiles = [os.path.join(dirpath, f)
    for dirpath, dirnames, files in os.walk(path)
    for f in files if f.endswith('.txt')]

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