En Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:42:15 -0300, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> Paul McGuire schrieb: >> On Mar 27, 10:18 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Fabian Braennstroem wrote: >>>> while iter: >>>> value = model.get_value(iter, 1) >>>> if value.endswith("."+ pattern): [...] >>>> >>>> Now, I would like to improve it by searching for different 'real' >>>> patterns just like using 'ls' in bash. E.g. the entry >>>> 'car*.pdf' should select all pdf files with a beginning 'car'. >>>> Does anyone have an idea, how to do it? >>> Use regular expressions. They are part of the module "re". And if you >>> use them, ditch your code above, and make it just search for a pattern >>> all the time. Because the above is just the case of >>> *.ext >> The glob module is a more direct tool based on the OP's example. The >> example he gives works directly with glob. To use re, you'd have to >> convert to something like "car.*\.pdf", yes? > I'm aware of the glob-module. But it only works on files. I was under > the impression that he already has a list of files he wants to filter > instead of getting it fresh from the filesystem. In that case the best way would be to use the fnmatch module - it already knows how to translate from car*.pdf into the right regexp. (The glob module is like a combo os.listdir+fnmatch.filter) -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list