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| author | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2009-09-23 21:44:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2009-09-23 21:44:27 (GMT) |
| commit | ceaebc3b585ddff8eae7473e7bcfbfbf0acade93 (patch) | |
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| parent | 239db95c0cbed5bb6b2c402cb28cd0ab60fc3dbf (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 75041 via svnmerge from
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r75041 | ezio.melotti | 2009-09-24 00:42:25 +0300 (Thu, 24 Sep 2009) | 9 lines
Merged revisions 75039 via svnmerge from
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r75039 | ezio.melotti | 2009-09-24 00:36:39 +0300 (Thu, 24 Sep 2009) | 1 line
improved phrasing, markup and example
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diff --git a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst index 7561880..7fa6148 100644 --- a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst +++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst @@ -36,11 +36,12 @@ 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. + Test whether the *filename* string matches the *pattern* string, returning + :const:`True` or :const:`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. :func:`fnmatchcase` can be used to perform a + case-sensitive comparison, regardless of whether that's standard for the + operating system. This example will print all file names in the current directory with the extension ``.txt``:: @@ -55,8 +56,8 @@ patterns. .. function:: fnmatchcase(filename, pattern) - Test whether *filename* matches *pattern*, returning true or false; the - comparison is case-sensitive. + Test whether *filename* matches *pattern*, returning :const:`True` or + :const:`False`; the comparison is case-sensitive. .. function:: filter(names, pattern) @@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ patterns. >>> regex '.*\\.txt$' >>> reobj = re.compile(regex) - >>> print(reobj.match('foobar.txt')) + >>> reobj.match('foobar.txt') <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...> |