On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
import scipy [a for a in dir(scipy.fft) if a.startswith("f")] ['func_closure', 'func_code', 'func_defaults', 'func_dict', 'func_doc', 'func_globals', 'func_name']
See Steven's quote about the reason for dir's very existence (i.e. as a convenience function). There's no real comparison from a usability point of view between the above and "dir(scipy.fft, 'f*')" fnmatch.filter(dir(scipy.fft), "f*") is even simpler than the list comprehension, but still no match for the builtin version. However, as I mentioned in my other email, the dependency problem means this is likely to be harder to implement than it first looks, so the next step if for someone that is sufficiently interested to create a patch. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia