how can I implement this in python? On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano < ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> 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 >
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