On Nov 10, 1:59 pm, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mr.SpOOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi,
> > is there any way to search elements in a list using wildcards?
>
> > I have a list of various elements and I need to search for elements
> > starting with 'no', extract them and put in a new list.
> > I was thinking about something like:
>
> > mylist.index('no*')
>
> > Of course this doesn't work.
>
> I have exactly what you need :)
>
> >>> import fnmatch
> >>> fnmatch.filter(['baba', 'nono', 'papa', 'mama', 'nostradamus'], 'no*')
>
> ['nono', 'nostradamus']
>
>
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Arnaudrelated to the attached, what if i want to match the entry 'b' as the first element as the first item in a list of 0 or more additional lists. example is here - i would like to match any item in the outer list that has 'b' as its first element, not caring what the additional elements contain (but knowing those additional elements will be one or more lists): >>> list [['a', [], []], ['b', [1, 2], []], ['c', [3, 4], [5, 6]]] >>> list.index(['b',[],[]]) ie, would like to match the second element in the list with something where i just know 'b' is the first element, but have no idea what the other elements will be: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list >>> list.index(['b',[1,2],[]]) 1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
