[Tutor] Reading and Writing

[Erik Price]

On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 11:48  AM, Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed 
wrote:

> Iti also probably neater to use the glob module, as glob returns full
> pathnames, whereas with the os.listdir function, we find ourselves
> constructing the path.

Why does os.path.splitext() and fnmatch.fnmatch() use the Unix-style 
shell globbing syntax for pattern-matching?  I find "glob"-style 
pattern-matching to be somewhat weak after having used regular 
expressions (especially PCREs).  There must be some way to use (or some 
module that uses) regexes instead.

Is that for easiness for newbies or to appease sysadmins used to bash?  
(I like bash too but Python seems like it should be more powerful than 
just globbing.)

Either way, it's no match for regular expressions.
(Hah!  I kill me!  ;)



Erik





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