fnmatch() vs. glob.glob()

Jinghui Niu niujinghui at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 20:04:19 EST 2016


On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:00:57 PM UTC-8, Ben Finney wrote:
> Jinghui Niu <niujinghui at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Thank you for your reply. So if for a beginner learner who doesn't
> > care so much about Unix-compliant, which one is a better choice for
> > learning purpose?
> 
> Learn to care about the difference :-) They are both useful and both do
> different things.
> 
> -- 
>  \     "I must say that I find television very educational. The minute |
>   `\       somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book." |
> _o__)                                                    --Groucho Marx |
> Ben Finney

May I take this opportunity to ask a bold question for a beginner: if I want to mimic Sublime Text's fuzzy search for a file search in given directories, which module of these two would be more suitable? Could you shed some insights? Thanks.



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