Quoth Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com>: > rdmur...@bitdance.com wrote: > > What you want is: > > > > from fnmatch import fnmatch > > Oh, that's head-smackingly obvious now...thanks! > > My thought process usually goes something like > > """ > I want to do some file-name globbing > > there's a glob module that looks like a good place to start > > hmm, dir(glob) tells me there's a fnmatch thing that looks like > what I want according to help(glob.fnmatch) > > oh, the fnmatch() function is inside this glob.fnmatch thing > > so, I want glob.fnmatch.fnmatch() > """ > > It never occurred to me that fnmatch was its own importable > module. <sheepish grin>
I did a help(glob), saw that fnmatch wasn't in there, did a dir(glob), saw fnmatch and was puzzled, so I looked up the glob doc page on docs.python.org for glob. There was a cross reference at the bottom of the page to fnmatch, and it was only at that point that I went: "oh, duh" :) --RDM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
