babylon 3

import os
import fnmatch
import re

coredir = '/etc/sv/core'

# with fnmatch
cores = [file for file in os.listdir(coredir) if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, 'core.*')]

# with re.compile
pattern = re.compile(r'core.[0-9]+')
cores2 = [file for file in os.listdir(coredir) if pattern.match(file)]