Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob()

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On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:16:44 PM UTC-8, Ben Finney wrote:
> Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > May I take this opportunity to ask a bold question for a beginner
> 
> No problem, your questions are on topic here. Thank you for being civil.
> 
> > 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?
> 
> You'll need to describe the requirements, I don't know exactly what that
> behaviour is.
> 
> -- 
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> Ben Finney

Let me try to describe the behaviours as much as I can here: It is a real-time search, updating the search result as you type; It is very smart, not limiting itself into the verbatim words, but extracting feature strings automatically, e.g., typing "fontz" will match not just "*fontz*", but also "font-size", "fontzipper", etc; It can be switched for certain type of files according specific rules, such as not including ".pyc" files.

My gut feeling is that it is using Regex, but just wonder how I can fit Regex into either fnmatch() or glob() module.

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fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 12:17 -0800
  Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 08:37 +1100
    Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 16:53 -0800
      Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 12:00 +1100
        Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 17:04 -0800
          Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 12:16 +1100
            Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 17:37 -0800
              Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 12:49 +1100
              Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 12:56 +1100
              Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-03-08 02:35 +0000
          Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-08 13:19 +1100

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