Python Dunce wrote:
So if I happen
to be processing 'foo [bar].par2'
glob.glob(filename[:-5]+'.*par2')
doesn't return anything. Using win32api.FindFiles(filename[:-5]+'.*par2')
works perfectly, but I don't want to rely on win32api functions. I hope
that made more sense :).
If you look in the source for glob.py, you will find that it calls the
fnmatch module, and this is the docstring for fnmatch.translate():
"""Translate a shell PATTERN to a regular expression.
There is no way to quote meta-characters.
"""
So you cannot do what you want with glob.
You can replace [] with ? in your glob string, if you are sure that
there won't be other characters there. That's a bit of a hack, and I
wouldn't do it.
In my mind it would probably be best to do:
re_vol = re.compile(re.escape(startpart) + ".*vol.*")
lst = [filename for filename in os.listdir(".") if re_vol.match(filename)]
I changed "list" to "lst" because the former shadows a built-in.
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