re.compile for names

[John Machin]

On 22/05/2007 12:02 AM, Paul McGuire wrote:
> On May 21, 8:46 am, brad <byte8b... at gmail.com> wrote:

>> The goal of the list is to have enough strings to identify files that
>> may contain the names of people. Missing a name in a file is unacceptable.
>>

Seems to me the OP is looking for people-names inside file-contents, not 
inside file-names.

[snip]

> You will also get better results if you constrain the location of the
> match, for instance, looking for file names that *start* with
> someone's name, instead of just containing them somewhere.

YMevidentlyV :-)