Opening certain files within a directory

I have a very basic question about creating a list of files. I would like to:

1. open a directory specified by a path

2. add all files that match a certain pattern onto a file list (let's say files that start with "AML_" followed by 6 capital letters followed by an underscore and then 6 numbers and ending in ".sam")

3. close the directory

Now I can go through each file in the list and process it appropriately. I do this a lot in perl, but I'm new to python and I'm having trouble figuring out this basic operation.

Thank you.

Eric

Look at the os module for functions that interact with the file system (in particular the function os.listdir is what you want on that end) and the re module for regular expressions.

os.listdir() will list a directorys' content

instead of re module using regular expression you could also parse out the unwated contents via the glob.glob()

Thanks all. I got it to work. I really appreciate the help.

Eric

Too late probably, but look at glob.glob in the future