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| author | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2012-11-17 15:38:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2012-11-17 15:38:11 (GMT) |
| commit | a39a22dc0b20f0373792322b054228f1f62b736a (patch) | |
| tree | fc903072f5fb959b0da2c98f4275f13e65fd448b /Doc/library/fnmatch.rst | |
| parent | 52e855084dc21fc2ea9a8a4a8c9c0beab6a855c3 (diff) | |
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#16420: document a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst index 4ba6b77..e0434b0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst +++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst @@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ special characters used in shell-style wildcards are: | ``[!seq]`` | matches any character not in *seq* | +------------+------------------------------------+ +For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets. +For example, ``'[?]'`` matches the character ``'?'``. + .. index:: module: glob Note that the filename separator (``'/'`` on Unix) is *not* special to this @@ -74,8 +77,6 @@ patterns. Return the shell-style *pattern* converted to a regular expression. - Be aware there is no way to quote meta-characters. - Example: >>> import fnmatch, re |