On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:14:05PM -0400, Alex Walters
Fnmath.filter works great. To remind people what it does, it takes an iterable of strings and a pattern and returns a list of the strings that match the pattern. And that is wonderful
However, I often need to filter *out* the items that match the pattern (to ignore them). In every project that I need this I end up copying the function out of the fnmatch library and adding 'not' to the test clause. It would be wonderful if there was a filter_false version in the standard library. Or in inversion Boolean option. Or something, to stop from having to copy code every time I need to ignore files.
Why not create a package and publish at PyPI? Then all you need is pip install fnmatch_filter_false in your virtual env. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.