[Python-ideas] Updated PEP 428 (pathlib)

[Devin Jeanpierre]

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Charles-François Natali
<cf.natali at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Compile the glob pattern to an NFA and simulate the NFA efficiently
>> (using Thompson's algorithm or even backtracking with memoization,
>> rather than plain backtracking).
>
> Well, I'm sure it would be much better, but that would be a rather
> large piece of code, which would probably belong to a new regex
> engine, no?

It's a weekend worth of code at most. A simple regex engine is
trivial, and glob is even simpler than that. (For example, we can use
the glob pattern itself as the NFA during simulation).

-- Devin