find_files_and_order_them¶

visualize.utils.find_files_and_order_them(files, files_format='.png')¶

Find files in a list of directories or a directory and order them.

These files are in order, and takes into account if the name of the file is a number (1 would go before 10 even if the number of the file is not 0-padded). If the files param was a list of directories, the files are in order within each directory but the directories order is maintained.

Parameters:¶

files : list | str¶

list of files, list of directories, or a directory.

files_format : str¶

format of the files to get (e.g. ‘.png’, ‘.jpg’)

Returns:¶

List of the files contained in the files argument.

Return type:¶

list

Example

If files is a list of directories [dir_a, dir_b, dir_c] containing the following files:

Example of directory contents¶

dir_a	dir_b	dir_c
100	world	C
10	30	B
2	5	A
1	hello	70
file	200	9

The result would be: 1, 2, 10, 100, file, 5, 30, 200, hello, world, 9, 70, A, B, C