On 9 Jun 2006 17:44:42 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually, i am doing an application that allows user to delete files by > entering an input pattern.
If you are looking to match filenames, you might want to have a look at the fnmatch and glob modules. The patterns that they support are less powerful and flexible than regex patters, but much simpler, and specifically designed with filename matching in mind. -- Cheers, Simon B, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list