[Python-ideas] dir with a glob?

[Ben Finney]

Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> writes:

> On 30.06.2011 15:09, Mathias Panzenböck wrote:
> > Then one could use it in a filter expression:
> > 
> > 	filter(re.compile("^i"), dir(sp.fft))
>
> What's wrong with
>
>    filter(re.compile("^i").search, dir(sp.fft))

(I'm confused over this example, since there are no attributes of
‘scipy.fft’ that start with ‘i’. I'll switch to an example where we're
looking for its attributes that start with ‘f’.)

The globs people have shown are AFAICT easily done by the existing
string methods, and don't need regex. So why not:

>>> 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']

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