Exclude temporary files using glob

Question

Is there a way to exclude temporary files without writing more lines of code?

for file in glob.glob("C\user1\*.xlsx"):
    print(file)

C\user1\apple.xlsx
C\user1\~$apple.xlsx

I tried:

for file in glob.glob("C\user1\[^\w]*.xlsx"):
    print(file)

Answer 1

You can't use regular expression escape sequences in globs. You also have it backwards -- you want the first character to be a word character, not exclude them.

In filename wildcards, use [!characters] to exclude characters, not [^characters] . See the fnmatch module.

for file in glob.glob(r"C\user1\[!~]*.xlsx"):
    print(file)

Answer 2

You could do something like this:

for file in filter(lambda x: x[0] != '~', glob.glob('C\user1\*.xlsx')):
    print(file)