Dan Mick wrote:
>
> >> We use fnmatch() from the fnmatch module. I don't know what that uses
> >> underneath. But in any case, if it *did* use libc::regex(), I certainly
> >> wouldn't want to switch it underneath since that would change the
> >> semantics of fnmatch() for all Python programs.
> >
> > Erm, aren't these patterm platform-specific anyway (e.g. shell pattern
> > for Unix/Linux differ from Windows shell pattern etc.) ?
>
> Erm, why would that matter?
See comment above ("... would change the semantics of fnmatch() for all
Python programs ..."). If the pattern matching is platform-specific
anyway and we change the behaviour for all python applications on
Solaris... why would this be a problem (note that "~(" is an invalid
pattern anyway, e.g. this extension cannot break existing applications)
?
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Bye,
Roland
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