On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mar 26, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >>> One thing that /would/ be helpful though is the ability to list all the >>> resources under a specific package path. This is (I think) one use case >>> that pkg_resource fails to support and it's the one place that I've had >>> to >>> drop down to file system introspection. >>> >>> Think: the package-y flavor of >>> os.listdir(os.path.dirname(package.__file__)) >> >> Good idea. Can I suggest that API this takes a glob-style pattern? (Or >> to be fully general, a list of patterns and a list of exclusion >> patterns.) > > Good idea. Thinking back on my typical use cases, a glob style pattern > would be enough. Usually I'm asking "give me all the .py files in this > package" or "I'm looking for the .txt files in this path".
I think shutil.copytree new ignore mechanism handles this use case pretty well (see the ignore_patterns factory in http://docs.python.org/library/shutil.html) Maybe we could use the same pattern. Tarek _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
