On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:16:44 PM UTC-8, Ben Finney wrote: > Jinghui Niu <niujing...@gmail.com> writes: > > > May I take this opportunity to ask a bold question for a beginner > > No problem, your questions are on topic here. Thank you for being civil. > > > if I want to mimic Sublime Text's fuzzy search for a file search in > > given directories, which module of these two would be more suitable? > > You'll need to describe the requirements, I don't know exactly what that > behaviour is. > > -- > \ "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of | > `\ me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not | > _o__) worthy of me." --Jesus, as quoted in Matthew 10:37 | > Ben Finney
Let me try to describe the behaviours as much as I can here: It is a real-time search, updating the search result as you type; It is very smart, not limiting itself into the verbatim words, but extracting feature strings automatically, e.g., typing "fontz" will match not just "*fontz*", but also "font-size", "fontzipper", etc; It can be switched for certain type of files according specific rules, such as not including ".pyc" files. My gut feeling is that it is using Regex, but just wonder how I can fit Regex into either fnmatch() or glob() module. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
