On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Ervin Hegedüs <airw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And worse, the given re would delete a file named "uni" which doesn't >> sound ANYTHING like what the OP wanted :-) > > yes, you're right - I've missed out a "." before the "*". :)
Another reason to avoid regexps when you don't actually need them. Globs are simpler, and have fewer obscure failure modes. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list