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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-15 14:27:07 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-15 14:27:07 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex b/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 1ac46bd..0000000 --- a/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,86 +0,0 @@ -\section{\module{fnmatch} --- - \UNIX{} filename pattern matching} - -\declaremodule{standard}{fnmatch} -\modulesynopsis{\UNIX\ shell style filename pattern matching.} - - -\index{filenames!wildcard expansion} - -This module provides support for \UNIX{} shell-style wildcards, which -are \emph{not} the same as regular expressions (which are documented -in the \refmodule{re}\refstmodindex{re} module). The special -characters used in shell-style wildcards are: - -\begin{tableii}{c|l}{code}{Pattern}{Meaning} - \lineii{*}{matches everything} - \lineii{?}{matches any single character} - \lineii{[\var{seq}]}{matches any character in \var{seq}} - \lineii{[!\var{seq}]}{matches any character not in \var{seq}} -\end{tableii} - -Note that the filename separator (\code{'/'} on \UNIX) is \emph{not} -special to this module. See module -\refmodule{glob}\refstmodindex{glob} for pathname expansion -(\refmodule{glob} uses \function{fnmatch()} to match pathname -segments). Similarly, filenames starting with a period are -not special for this module, and are matched by the \code{*} and -\code{?} patterns. - - -\begin{funcdesc}{fnmatch}{filename, pattern} -Test whether the \var{filename} string matches the \var{pattern} -string, returning true or false. If the operating system is -case-insensitive, then both parameters will be normalized to all -lower- or upper-case before the comparison is performed. If you -require a case-sensitive comparison regardless of whether that's -standard for your operating system, use \function{fnmatchcase()} -instead. - -This example will print all file names in the current directory with the -extension \code{.txt}: - -\begin{verbatim} -import fnmatch -import os - -for file in os.listdir('.'): - if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, '*.txt'): - print file -\end{verbatim} - -\end{funcdesc} - -\begin{funcdesc}{fnmatchcase}{filename, pattern} -Test whether \var{filename} matches \var{pattern}, returning true or -false; the comparison is case-sensitive. -\end{funcdesc} - -\begin{funcdesc}{filter}{names, pattern} -Return the subset of the list of \var{names} that match \var{pattern}. -It is the same as \code{[n for n in names if fnmatch(n, pattern)]}, but -implemented more efficiently. -\versionadded{2.2} -\end{funcdesc} - -\begin{funcdesc}{translate}{pattern} -Return the shell-style \var{pattern} converted to a regular -expression. - -Example: - -\begin{verbatim} ->>> import fnmatch, re ->>> ->>> regex = fnmatch.translate('*.txt') ->>> regex -'.*\\.txt$' ->>> reobj = re.compile(regex) ->>> print reobj.match('foobar.txt') -<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...> -\end{verbatim} -\end{funcdesc} - -\begin{seealso} - \seemodule{glob}{\UNIX{} shell-style path expansion.} -\end{seealso} |