Assign glob.iglob() results to a list

Question

The glob.iglob() -function returns an iterator. How can I most effectively assign its "items" to a list in Python? I want the results in a list so that I can choose a random item with random.choice() .

Answer 1

You could use glob.glob instead since it returns a list.

To build a list out of an arbitrary iterable, you just use the list builtin:

list(glob.iglob('*'))