More Efficient fnmatch.fnmatch for multiple patterns?

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Monday 8/1/2007 15:10, abcd wrote:

>I am using fnmatch.fnmatch to find some files.  The only problem I have
>is that it only takes one pattern...so if I want to search using
>multiple patterns I have to do something like....
>
>patterns = ['abc*.txt', 'foo*']
>
>for p in patterns:
>     if fnmatch.fnmatch(some_file_name, p):
>         return True
>
>...is there a built-in function that will match using multiple patterns?

matched = any(fnmatch(filename, p) for p in patterns)


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	

	
		
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