[Python-checkins] r54324 - in python/branches/release25-maint: Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex Misc/NEWS
georg.brandl
python-checkins at python.org
Tue Mar 13 08:51:06 CET 2007
Author: georg.brandl
Date: Tue Mar 13 08:51:04 2007
New Revision: 54324
Modified:
python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex
python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS
Log:
Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
(backport from rev. 54323)
Modified: python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex (original)
+++ python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libfnmatch.tex Tue Mar 13 08:51:04 2007
@@ -36,6 +36,19 @@
require a case-sensitive comparison regardless of whether that's
standard for your operating system, use \function{fnmatchcase()}
instead.
+
+This example will print all file names in the current directory with the
+extension \code{.txt}:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+import fnmatch
+import os
+
+for file in os.listdir('.'):
+ if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, '*.txt'):
+ print file
+\end{verbatim}
+
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{fnmatchcase}{filename, pattern}
@@ -50,6 +63,24 @@
\versionadded{2.2}
\end{funcdesc}
+\begin{funcdesc}{translate}{pattern}
+Return the shell-style \var{pattern} converted to a regular
+expression.
+
+Example:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+>>> import fnmatch, re
+>>>
+>>> regex = fnmatch.translate('*.txt')
+>>> regex
+'.*\\.txt$'
+>>> reobj = re.compile(regex)
+>>> print reobj.match('foobar.txt')
+<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...>
+\end{verbatim}
+\end{funcdesc}
+
\begin{seealso}
\seemodule{glob}{\UNIX{} shell-style path expansion.}
\end{seealso}
Modified: python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS (original)
+++ python/branches/release25-maint/Misc/NEWS Tue Mar 13 08:51:04 2007
@@ -503,6 +503,8 @@
Documentation
-------------
+- Patch #1679379: add documentation for fnmatch.translate().
+
- Patch #1671450: add a section about subclassing builtin types to the
"extending and embedding" tutorial.
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