Spread a statement over various lines

[Ralf M.]

Am 17.09.2019 um 20:59 schrieb Manfred Lotz:
> I have a function like follows
> 
> def regex_from_filepat(fpat):
>      rfpat = fpat.replace('.', '\\.') \
>                        .replace('%', '.')  \
>                        .replace('*', '.*')
> 
>      return '^' + rfpat + '$'
> 
> 
> As I don't want to have the replace() functions in one line my
> question is if it is ok to spread the statement over various lines as
> shown above, or if there is a better way?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Not related to your question, but:
You seem to try to convert a Windows wildcard pattern to a regex 
pattern. However, wildcards sometimes behave a bit different than what 
you assume. I know for instance that *.* matches any filename, even if 
the filename doesn't contain a dot.

Out of curiosity I played around a bit, details below.
As you can see, there are other wildcard strangenesses, e.g.
- ? does not match a dot
- ???? between letters etc. matches exactly 4 characters, but
   ???? at the end or directly before a dot matches at most 4 characters

I don't know the exact rules of Windows wildcards, so there may be even 
more cases of unexpected behavior.
If anyone knows where to find the complete rules (or a python module 
that implements them), I would be interested.

Regards,
Ralf

----- Details (Win 7 home SP1) -----

C:\tmp>more pydirb.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os, re, sys

def regex_from_filepat(fpat):
     rfpat = fpat.replace('.', '\\.') \
                 .replace('?', '.')   \
                 .replace('*', '.*')
     return '^' + rfpat + '$'

regexfilepat = re.compile(regex_from_filepat(sys.argv[1]))

for name in os.listdir():
     if regexfilepat.match(name):
         print(name)

C:\tmp>dir /b *
foo
foo.bar
foo.bar.c
foo.c
pydirb.py

C:\tmp>pydirb *
foo
foo.bar
foo.bar.c
foo.c
pydirb.py

C:\tmp>dir /b *.*
foo
foo.bar
foo.bar.c
foo.c
pydirb.py

C:\tmp>pydirb *.*
foo.bar
foo.bar.c
foo.c
pydirb.py

C:\tmp>dir /b *.*.*.*.*
foo
foo.bar
foo.bar.c
foo.c
pydirb.py

C:\tmp>pydirb *.*.*.*.*

C:\tmp>dir /b foo.?
foo
foo.c

C:\tmp>pydirb foo.?
foo.c

C:\tmp>dir /b foo.????
foo
foo.bar
foo.c

C:\tmp>pydirb foo.????

C:\tmp>dir /b foo?bar
Datei nicht gefunden

C:\tmp>pydirb foo?bar
foo.bar

C:\tmp>dir /b f?o.bar
foo.bar

C:\tmp>pydirb f?o.bar
foo.bar

C:\tmp>dir /b f??o.bar
Datei nicht gefunden

C:\tmp>pydirb f??o.bar

C:\tmp>dir /b fo?.bar
foo.bar

C:\tmp>pydirb fo?.bar
foo.bar

C:\tmp>dir /b fo??.bar
foo.bar

C:\tmp>pydirb fo??.bar

C:\tmp>dir /b foo??.bar
foo.bar

C:\tmp>pydirb foo??.bar