On 2016-03-08 01:37, Jinghui Niu wrote:
On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:16:44 PM UTC-8, Ben Finney wrote:
Jinghui Niu <niujing...@gmail.com> writes:
> May I take this opportunity to ask a bold question for a beginner
No problem, your questions are on topic here. Thank you for being civil.
> if I want to mimic Sublime Text's fuzzy search for a file search in
> given directories, which module of these two would be more suitable?
You'll need to describe the requirements, I don't know exactly what that
behaviour is.
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Let me try to describe the behaviours as much as I can here: It is a real-time search, updating the search result as you type; It
is very smart, not limiting itself into the verbatim words, but extracting feature strings automatically, e.g., typing
"fontz" will match not just "*fontz*", but also "font-size", "fontzipper", etc; It can be
switched for certain type of files according specific rules, such as not including ".pyc" files.
My gut feeling is that it is using Regex, but just wonder how I can fit Regex
into either fnmatch() or glob() module.
Could it be as simple as looking for _those_ characters in _that_ order?
It might be giving a higher prominence to those whose matching letters
are closer together.
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