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Author rajcze
Recipients rajcze
Date 2009-08-07.09:49:14
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Message-id <1249638559.7.0.0574356115412.issue6665@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Hello,
at the moment, fnmatch.fnmatch() will fail to match any string, which
has \n character. This of course breaks glob as well.

Example

> import fnmatch
> fnmatch.fnmatch("foo\nbar", "foo*")
False

> import glob
> open("foobar", "w").close()
> open("foo\nbar", "w").close()
> glob.glob("foo*")
['foobar']

while the expected result is ['foobar', 'foo\nbar']. The standard C
fnmatch function from fnmatch.h is behaving correctly i.e. this code
will print out "match!"

#include <fnmatch.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    if (fnmatch("foo*", "foo\nbar", FNM_NOESCAPE) == 0)
        printf("match!\n");
    else
        printf("fail!\n");
    return 0;
}


This misbehaviour is caused by the fnmatch.translate() which adds $ to
the end of the regexp. Without the ending $ the fnmatch function works OK.
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