Michael Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> 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.
Thanks, that should do the trick! I had tried basically the same thing
once but I was getting back empty lists. I think it was just a brain fart
involving a case sensitive regex that didn't match the files I was testing
it on :/.
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