On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:06 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.
glob only works for paths. I had no idea fnmatch was more general than filenames though. Interesting. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
