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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..244bad9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ + +:mod:`fnmatch` --- Unix filename pattern matching +================================================= + +.. module:: fnmatch + :synopsis: Unix shell style filename pattern matching. + + +.. index:: single: filenames; wildcard expansion + +.. index:: module: re + +This module provides support for Unix shell-style wildcards, which are *not* the +same as regular expressions (which are documented in the :mod:`re` module). The +special characters used in shell-style wildcards are: + ++------------+------------------------------------+ +| Pattern | Meaning | ++============+====================================+ +| ``*`` | matches everything | ++------------+------------------------------------+ +| ``?`` | matches any single character | ++------------+------------------------------------+ +| ``[seq]`` | matches any character in *seq* | ++------------+------------------------------------+ +| ``[!seq]`` | matches any character not in *seq* | ++------------+------------------------------------+ + +.. index:: module: glob + +Note that the filename separator (``'/'`` on Unix) is *not* special to this +module. See module :mod:`glob` for pathname expansion (:mod:`glob` uses +:func:`fnmatch` to match pathname segments). Similarly, filenames starting with +a period are not special for this module, and are matched by the ``*`` and ``?`` +patterns. + + +.. function:: fnmatch(filename, pattern) + + Test whether the *filename* string matches the *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 :func:`fnmatchcase` instead. + + This example will print all file names in the current directory with the + extension ``.txt``:: + + import fnmatch + import os + + for file in os.listdir('.'): + if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, '*.txt'): + print file + + +.. function:: fnmatchcase(filename, pattern) + + Test whether *filename* matches *pattern*, returning true or false; the + comparison is case-sensitive. + + +.. function:: filter(names, pattern) + + Return the subset of the list of *names* that match *pattern*. It is the same as + ``[n for n in names if fnmatch(n, pattern)]``, but implemented more efficiently. + + .. versionadded:: 2.2 + + +.. function:: translate(pattern) + + Return the shell-style *pattern* converted to a regular expression. + + Example:: + + >>> import fnmatch, re + >>> + >>> regex = fnmatch.translate('*.txt') + >>> regex + '.*\\.txt$' + >>> reobj = re.compile(regex) + >>> print reobj.match('foobar.txt') + <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...> + + +.. seealso:: + + Module :mod:`glob` + Unix shell-style path expansion. + |