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Subject: Re: How do I remove/unlink wildcarded files
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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:59:17PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> And worse, the given re would delete a file named "uni" which doesn't
> >> sound ANYTHING like what the OP wanted :-)
> >
> > yes, you're right - I've missed out a "." before the "*". :)
> 
> Another reason to avoid regexps when you don't actually need them.
> Globs are simpler, and have fewer obscure failure modes.

it may be at the concrete example in OP is better the glob - but
I think in most cases the re modul gives more flexibility, I mean
the glob modul can handle the upper/lower chars? 


(Anyway, now I checked the fnmatch module, which uses re module :))


Cheers:


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