Christian Heimes added the comment: We could use an algorithm that doesn't need regexp for most cases.
pseudo code: value = value.lower() hostname = hostname.lower() if '*' not in value: return value == hostname vparts = valuesplit(".") hparts = hostname.split(".") if len(vparts) != len(hparts): # * doesn't match a dot return False for v, h in zip(vparts, hparts): if v == "*": # match any host part continue asterisk = v.count("*") if asterisk == 0: if v != h: return False elif asterisk == 1: # match with simple re else: # don't support more than one * in a FQDN part raise TooManyAsterisk ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17980> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com