[issue1738] filecmp.dircmp does exact match only

2008-01-04 Thread Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson added the comment: sorry...jacked up the patch file...new one attached Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file9068/filecmp.py.patch __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/

[issue1738] filecmp.dircmp does exact match only

2008-01-04 Thread Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson added the comment: Patch attached (sorry, this is my first bug report on an os project). dircmp has a list of files to ignore and hide. These lists right now are compared to the left and right lists using __contains__ to filter out the ignore/hide lists. This patch adds the

[issue1738] filecmp.dircmp does exact match only

2008-01-04 Thread Oliver Nelson
New submission from Oliver Nelson: dircmp's ignore and hide list only take exact files to ignore, not unix filename pattern's. This means you can't hide/ignore *.bak or something similar. Changing the _filter function adds this: def newfilter(flist, skip): for pattern in

[issue1738] filecmp.dircmp does exact match only

2008-01-04 Thread Oliver Nelson
Changes by Oliver Nelson: -- components: None nosy: flxkid severity: normal status: open title: filecmp.dircmp does exact match only type: behavior versions: Python 2.5 __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/