abcd wrote:
> I am using fnmatch.fnmatch to find some files. The only problem I have
> is that it only takes one pattern...so if I want to search using
> multiple patterns I have to do something like....
>
> patterns = ['abc*.txt', 'foo*']
>
> for p in patterns:
> if fnmatch.fnmatch(some_file_name, p):
> return True
>
> ...is there a built-in function that will match using multiple patterns?
import re
pats = re.compile('|'.join(fnmatch.translate(p) for p in patterns))
if pats.match(some_file_name):
return True
w.
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