Hi, On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:59:17PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Ervin Hegedüs <airw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And worse, the given re would delete a file named "uni" which doesn't > >> sound ANYTHING like what the OP wanted :-) > > > > yes, you're right - I've missed out a "." before the "*". :) > > Another reason to avoid regexps when you don't actually need them. > Globs are simpler, and have fewer obscure failure modes.
it may be at the concrete example in OP is better the glob - but I think in most cases the re modul gives more flexibility, I mean the glob modul can handle the upper/lower chars? (Anyway, now I checked the fnmatch module, which uses re module :)) Cheers: a. -- I � UTF-8 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list