In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, IamIan wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to use a regular expression in an FTP script to list
> certain files. When run in a standard FTP session the command:
>
> dir ????????.??[oOdDnNmM]*
>
> returns 48 files. When I use the following Python script it prints
> roughly 12 files (a subset of the 48), ending with 'None':
>
> […]
>
> Is my Python syntax off?
Your `re` syntax is off. What you give FTP is a shell or glob pattern,
not a regular expression for the `re` module.
The `fnmatch` module has a function to translate a glob pattern to a `re`
pattern:
In [8]: fnmatch.translate('????????.??[oOdDnNmM]*')
Out[8]: '........\\...[oOdDnNmM].*$'
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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