More Efficient fnmatch.fnmatch for multiple patterns?

[abcd]

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?

[Brian Beck]

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

I don't see anything in the fnmatch and glob modules... but I didn't look
very hard because what the heck is wrong with the four line solution you
have? Looks fine to me.

--
Brian Beck
Adventurer of the First Order

[Wojciech =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Mu=B3a?=]

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?

import re
pats = re.compile('|'.join(fnmatch.translate(p) for p in patterns))

if pats.match(some_file_name):
return True

w.

[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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[Gabriel Genellina]

At Monday 8/1/2007 15:55, Wojciech =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Mu=B3a?= wrote:

>pats = re.compile('|'.join(fnmatch.translate(p) for p in patterns))

Hmm, fnmatch.translate does not appear in the docs.
But it does on the module docstring, and in __all__, so certainly
it's supposed to be public.
I'll file a bug report.
--
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL


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