ENH: pandas read_* wildcard

[wxl3322335]

hi every one,i want to use in pandas like this
df = pd.read_excel('*order list*.xlsx')

could panda wildcard？
thank you！

[TomAugspurger]

There's a link in our cookbook, which links to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25210819/speeding-up-data-import-function-pandas-and-appending-to-dataframe/25210900#25210900

@wxl3322335 would you want to include the example from StackOverflow in the actual documentation, like some of the other examples?

[wxl3322335]

HI mr TomAugspurger ：
thanks for your help，but i am a new member here，i dont know how to do，i am sorry！

[wxl3322335]

@TomAugspurger could you tell how to use wildcard in reading csv ？
thank you very much！

[wxl3322335]

@jreback thanks for your help！

[dwkenefick]

I can take a crack at this - quick question: Is the issue that all read_* functions should support globs (based on the ENH in the title) or is it that the docs should include an example of how to read multiple files (Based on the Docs label and comments)?

Happy to help either way, but I wanted to make sure I'm on the right page.

[jreback]

this is just doc examples. We don't directly support globs in paths. I think we might want to try to detect a glob and raise, we don't support it, so it shouldn't pass thru.

@TomAugspurger

[TomAugspurger]

@dwkenefick in doc/source/cookbook.rst there's a link to the stackoverflow answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25210819/speeding-up-data-import-function-pandas-and-appending-to-dataframe/25210900#25210900

Basically, we want include an example like that in our documentation. Ideally it would be runnable.

Then in the main IO docs in io.rst you can add a little section about reading multiple files and link to the example in cookbook.rst.