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open a filename starting with in python

for file in os.listdir("/Users/darren/Desktop/test"):
    if file.startswith("art"):
        print(file)

get name of a file in python

>>> f = open('/tmp/generic.png','r')
>>> f.name
'/tmp/generic.png'
>>> import os
>>> os.path.basename(f.name)
'generic.png'