windows does not properly handle * (asterisk) argument when passed to python script

Question

I have a python script handling conversion of FIX (xml/json type) data. However under windows the argument * does not work to select all files for processing. However it does work under bash windows. Any way to circumvent/address this behavior?

Answer 1

As it seems windows cannot handle wildcards on it's own for file expansion. The individual binaries like copy, move etc handle on their own. The solution here is to add a loop to pass on each filename to the script:

FOR %%i IN (*.log) DO convert_FIX.py %%i