How to work with regex in Pathlib correctly?

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I want find all images and trying to use pathlib, but my reg expression don’t work. where I went wrong?

from pathlib import Path
FILE_PATHS=list(Path('./photos/test').rglob('*.(jpe?g|png)'))
print(len(FILE_PATHS))
FILE_PATHS=list(Path('./photos/test').rglob('*.jpg'))#11104
print(len(FILE_PATHS))

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Asked By: Piter

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Answer 1

Get list of files using Regex

import re
p = Path('C:/Users/user/Pictures')
files = []
for x in p.iterdir(): 
    a = re.search('.*(jpe?g|png)',str(x))
    if a is not None:
        files.append(a.group())

Answered By: micah

Answer 2

Get list of files using pathlib.Path then filter list with regex using re

import re
from pathlib import Path
basepath = Path('C:/Users/user/Pictures')
pattern = '.*(jpe?g|png)'
matching_files = []

for _path in [p for p in basepath.rglob('*.*')]:
    if re.match(pattern, _path.name):
        matching_files.append(_path)

Answered By: wonderkid2

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