On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:20:14 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Someone Something > <fordhai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm trying to write a program that needs reg expressions in the >> following way. If the user types in "*something*" that means that the >> asterixes can be replaced by any string of letters. I haven't been able >> to find any reg expression tutorials that I can understand. Help? > > Sounds like you only need globbing > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_%28programming%29) as opposed to full > regexes. > Simple wildcard globbing can be trivially done by replacing the *s in > the string with ".*", like so: > > *something* ===> .*something.*
Or just use the glob and fnmatch modules. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
