In a message of Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:22:32 +1000, Cameron Simpson writes: >That depends. This is the tutor list; we're helping Clayton debug his code as >an aid to learning. While it's good to know about the facilities in the >standard library, pointing him directly at fnmatch (which I'd entirely >forgotten) is the "give a man a fish" approach to help; a magic black box to >do >the job for him. > >Besides, I'm not sure fnmatch is much better for his task than the more direct >methods being discussed.
And I am certain. It works exactly as he said he wanted -- a less cumbersome way to solve this problem, which he thought would be done some way with a for loop, looping over extensions, instead of the cumbersome way he is doing things. His design sense was perfectly fine; there is an elegant way to solve the problem precisely along the lines he imagined -- he just wasn't aware of this bit of the standard library. There is no particular virtue in teaching somebody how to build a pneumatic drill in order to crack walnuts. Laura _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
