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globster
Advanced tools
Tools for converting globs to regular expressions.
This work is derived from Bazaar <http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/>_ (bzrlib) and Mikko Ohtamaa <https://github.com/miohtama/vvv/tree/master/vvv/bzrlib>_. I just created the Python package.
.. code-block:: python
from globster import Globster
g = Globster(["mydir/", "*.pyc"])
if g.match("/path/to/dir/myscript.pyc"):
print "it match"
if g.match("/path/to/mydir"):
print "it match"
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
FAQs
Convert shell-like globs to regular expressions
We found that globster demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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