[Tutor] Better way - fnmatch with list ? CORRECTION

[Damon Timm]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Mark Tolonen <metolone+gmane at gmail.com> wrote:
> fnmatch already takes into account systems with case-sensitive filenames:
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>>>> help(fnmatch.fnmatch)
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> Help on function fnmatch in module fnmatch:
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> fnmatch(name, pat)
>   Test whether FILENAME matches PATTERN.
>
>   Patterns are Unix shell style:
>
>   *       matches everything
>   ?       matches any single character
>   [seq]   matches any character in seq
>   [!seq]  matches any char not in seq
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>   An initial period in FILENAME is not special.
>   Both FILENAME and PATTERN are first case-normalized
>   if the operating system requires it.
>   If you don't want this, use fnmatchcase(FILENAME, PATTERN).
>
> -Mark

Hey Mark - thanks for your reply and the details ... I saw fnmatch did
*not* match case (which was great) ... but it also couldn't match any
item from another list of items ... had to do a single PATTERN at a
time ... that's why it was suggested I try to use the ext matching
from os.path.splitext() ... and why I needed to drop it to lowercase.
It seems like that is the easiest way to search for a match among a
list of file systems ...

Thanks!  Damon

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