Hi Chris, On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 01:01:31AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Ervin Hegedüs <airw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > it may be at the concrete example in OP is better the glob - but > > I think in most cases the re modul gives more flexibility, I mean > > the glob modul can handle the upper/lower chars? > > I'm not sure that I'd want to. Handling case insensitivity is fine > when you're restricting everything to ASCII, but it's rather harder > when you allow all of Unicode. For instance, U+0069 and U+0049 would > be considered case-insensitively equal in English, but in Turkish, > they're different letters; U+0069 upper-cases to U+0130, and U+0049 > lower-cases to U+0131. Much safer, when you're writing generic tools, > to simply require case sensitivity. And you can't easily know whether > the file system is case-sensitive, case-retaining, or case-folding; > you could easily have multiple mounts that differ, so > "/home/rosuav/foo/bar/quux" might be the same as > "/home/rosuav/FOO/bar/quux", but the other four components are all > case sensitive. Yes, it really is possible.
I didn't want to solve the OP's problem - I just gave an idea. Here was another possible solution, I think the OP can choose the right one :) Cheers: a. -- I � UTF-8 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
