[New-bugs-announce] [issue4573] zsh-style subpattern matching for fnmatch/glob

[Erick Tryzelaar]

New submission from Erick Tryzelaar <idadesub at users.sourceforge.net>:

As I mentioned on python-ideas, I my project needs to extend fnmatch to 
support zsh-style globbing, where you can use brackets to designate 
subexpressions. Say you had a directory structure like this:

foo/
 foo.ext1
 foo.ext2
bar/
 foo.ext1
 foo.ext2

The subexpressions will let you do patterns like this:

>>> glob.glob('foo/foo.{ext1,ext2}')
['foo/foo.ext1', 'foo/foo.ext2']
>>> glob.glob('foo/foo.ext{1,2}')
['foo/foo.ext1', 'foo/foo.ext2']
>>> glob.glob('{foo,bar}')
['bar', 'foo']
>>> glob.glob('{foo,bar}/foo*')
['bar/foo.ext1', 'bar/foo.ext2', 'foo/foo.ext1', 'foo/foo.ext2']
>>> glob.glob('{foo,bar}/foo.{ext*}')
['bar/foo.ext1', 'bar/foo.ext2', 'foo/foo.ext1', 'foo/foo.ext2']
>>> glob.glob('{f?o,b?r}/foo.{ext*}')
['bar/foo.ext1', 'bar/foo.ext2', 'foo/foo.ext1', 'foo/foo.ext2']


Would this be interesting to anyone else? It would unfortunately break 
fnmatch since it currently treats {} as ordinary characters. It'd be 
easy to work around that by adding a flag or using a different function 
name though. Anyway, here's the patch against the head of py3k.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: zsh-fnmatch.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 77216
nosy: erickt
severity: normal
status: open
title: zsh-style subpattern matching for fnmatch/glob
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12259/zsh-fnmatch.diff

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