On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:45 AM, Pete Wyckoff <p...@padd.com> wrote:
> draf...@gmail.com wrote on Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:44 -0800:
>> Python 2.5 and older do not accept None as the first argument to
>> translate() and complain with:
>>
>> TypeError: expected a character buffer object
>>
>> Satisfy this older python by calling maketrans() to generate an empty
>> translation table and supplying that to translate().
>>
>> This allows git-p4 to be used with Python 2.5.
>
> This was a lot easier than I imagined!
>
>> def wildcard_present(path):
>> - return path.translate(None, "*#@%") != path
>> + from string import maketrans
>> + return path.translate(maketrans("",""), "*#@%") != path
>
> translate() was a bit too subtle already. Could you try
> something like this instead?
>
> m = re.search("[*#@%]", path)
> return m is not None
>
> I think that'll work everywhere and not force people to look
> up how translate and maketrans work.
Yes that's simpler and works fine.
-Brandon
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