Kaydet (Commit) 2fd3592e authored tarafından Ezio Melotti's avatar Ezio Melotti

improved phrasing, markup and example

üst ca66cb5c
......@@ -37,11 +37,12 @@ patterns.
.. function:: fnmatch(filename, pattern)
Test whether the *filename* string matches the *pattern* string, returning true
or false. If the operating system is case-insensitive, then both parameters
will be normalized to all lower- or upper-case before the comparison is
performed. If you require a case-sensitive comparison regardless of whether
that's standard for your operating system, use :func:`fnmatchcase` instead.
Test whether the *filename* string matches the *pattern* string, returning
:const:`True` or :const:`False`. If the operating system is case-insensitive,
then both parameters will be normalized to all lower- or upper-case before
the comparison is performed. :func:`fnmatchcase` can be used to perform a
case-sensitive comparison, regardless of whether that's standard for the
operating system.
This example will print all file names in the current directory with the
extension ``.txt``::
......@@ -56,8 +57,8 @@ patterns.
.. function:: fnmatchcase(filename, pattern)
Test whether *filename* matches *pattern*, returning true or false; the
comparison is case-sensitive.
Test whether *filename* matches *pattern*, returning :const:`True` or
:const:`False`; the comparison is case-sensitive.
.. function:: filter(names, pattern)
......@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ patterns.
>>> regex
'.*\\.txt$'
>>> reobj = re.compile(regex)
>>> print reobj.match('foobar.txt')
>>> reobj.match('foobar.txt')
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...>
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