wrapped around the axle on regexpressions and file searching

[Steve Atkins]

On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 15:21:03 GMT, "Gordon McMillan"
<gmcm at hypernet.com> wrote:

>msrisney writes:

>> here are my questions: 1. this prints  out not only files with the
>> file extensions ".log" but also any file name that has "log" in it's
>> name. how would I rewrite to avoid??
>
>In a regex, a "." is a wildcard character. If you want a literal "." 
>you need to escape it: 
> re.compile('\\.log')
>or
> re.compile(r'\.log')

Wouldn't that be re.compile('\\.log$'), so as to avoid things like
tree.log.jpg?

doesn't-yet-grok-python-but-does-grok-regexps-ly y'rs

Steve
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