Hello Andrea,
> I'm quite new to Python and I don't know if this is a FAQ (I
> can't find it) or an obvious question. I'm using the RE module
> in python, and I would like to be able to contruct something
> like the Window$ "Find Files Or Folders" engine. As the Window$
> users know, you can filter the file names using the character
> "*", as:
[...]
You're looking for the fnmatch module.
> import re
> mystring = "*yf*nam*"
> mystring.replace("*","\w+")
> php = re.compile(mystring + "\w+")
>
> But it does not work...
>>> re.compile("*yf*nam*".replace("*", ".*")+"$").match("myfilename")
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb7ab3b10>
> Is there a way to let the user of my application use the "*" character and
> to do a Regular Expression search inside a Python code?
>>> import fnmatch
>>> fnmatch.fnmatch("myfilename", "*yf*nam*")
True
>>> fnmatch.translate("*")
'.*$'
>>> fnmatch.translate("?yf*nam?")
'.yf.*nam.$'
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