Get a filtered list of files in a directory

import glob

jpgFilenamesList = glob.glob('145592*.jpg')

See glob in python documenttion

glob.glob() is definitely the way to do it (as per Ignacio). However, if you do need more complicated matching, you can do it with a list comprehension and re.match(), something like so:

files = [f for f in os.listdir('.') if re.match(r'[0-9]+.*\.jpg', f)]

More flexible, but as you note, less efficient.