On 14/06/2018 13:33, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:27:05AM +0000, Steve Barnes wrote:
>
> [...]
>> What I would like to suggest is extending the dir built-in to allow an
>> optional filter parameter that takes fnmatch type wild card as an
>> optional filter. Then I could use:
>>
>> >>> dir(mpmath, "*sin*")
>>
>> To narrow down the candidates.
>
> I have exactly that in my Python startup file. It monkey-patches the
> builtin dir with a custom wrapper function that has signature:
>
> edir( [object, [glob='',]] *, meta=False, dunder=True, private=True)
>
> For the glob, I support the following metacharacters:
>
> - Reverse matching: if the glob begins with '!' or '!=', the
> sense of the match is reversed to "don't match".
>
> - Case-sensitive matching: if the glob begins with '=' or '!=',
> perform a case-sensitive match. Otherwise filters are case-
> insensitive by default.
>
> - Wildcards: '?' to match a single character, '*' to match
> zero or more characters.
>
> - Character sets: e.g. '[abc]' to match any of 'a', 'b', 'c',
> or '[!abc]' to match any character except 'a', 'b', 'c'.
>
> If the glob argument contains no metacharacters apart from the ! and =
> flags, a straight substring match is performed. So there's no need to
> match on a glob "*foo*", I can just use "foo".
>
> If there is interest in this, I will clean it up for public consumption,
> and publish it somewhere as a third-party module, and for consideration
> for the stdlib.
>
>
>
Obviously, I personally would be interested (probably goes without saying).
--
Steve (Gadget) Barnes
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