Fnmath.filter works great. To remind people what it does, it takes an iterable of strings and a pattern and returns a list of the strings that match the pattern. And that is wonderful
However, I often need to filter *out* the items that match the pattern (to ignore them). In every project that I need this I end up copying the function out of the fnmatch library and adding 'not' to the test clause. It would be wonderful if there was a filter_false version in the standard library. Or in inversion Boolean option. Or something, to stop from having to copy code every time I need to ignore files. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
