On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:14:05PM -0400, Alex Walters wrote: > 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.
Since I haven't seen any substantial objections to this idea, I've created an issue on the bug tracker, including a patch. http://bugs.python.org/issue30413 Unfortunately I have no CPU cycles available to learn the new Github way of doing things right now, somebody else will need to shepherd this through the rest of the process (making a PR, doing a review, rejecting or approving it, etc.) -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
