From 19e84ceea1bb2b7390418c8ca6eabdac9c40b019 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alessandro Barbieri Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:54:09 +0100 Subject: dev-python/wcmatch: new package Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.96, Repoman-2.3.21 Signed-off-by: Alessandro Barbieri --- dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) create mode 100644 dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml (limited to 'dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml') diff --git a/dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml b/dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..85785fc16 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-python/wcmatch/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ + + + + + + lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com + Alessandro Barbieri + + + facelessuser/wcmatch + wcmatch + + +Wildcard Match provides an enhanced fnmatch, glob, and pathlib library in order to provide +file matching and globbing that more closely follows the features found in Bash. In some +ways these libraries are similar to Python's builtin libraries as they provide a similar +interface to match, filter, and glob the file system. But they also include a number of +features found in Bash's globbing such as backslash escaping, brace expansion, extended +glob pattern groups, etc. They also add a number of new useful functions as well, such as +globmatch which functions like fnmatch, but for paths. +Wildcard Match also adds a file search utility called wcmatch that is built on top of fnmatch and globmatch. It was +originally written for Rummage, but split out into this project to be used by other +projects that may find its approach useful. +Bash is used as a guide when making decisions on behavior for fnmatch and glob. Behavior may differ from Bash version to Bash version, +but an attempt is made to keep Wildcard Match up with the latest relevant changes. With +all of this said, there may be a few corner cases in which we've intentionally chosen to +not exactly mirror Bash. If an issue is found where Wildcard Match seems to deviate in an +illogical way, we'd love to hear about it in the issue tracker. +Features +A quick overview of Wildcard Match's +Features: + Provides an interface comparable to Python's builtin in fnamtch, glob, and pathlib. + Allows for a much more configurable experience when matching or globbing with many more features. Adds support for ** in glob. + Adds support for escaping characters with \. + Add support for POSIX style character classes inside sequences: [[:alnum:]], etc. The C locale is used for byte strings and Unicode properties for Unicode strings. + Adds support for brace expansion: a{b,{c,d}} --> ab ac ad. + Adds support for expanding ~ or ~username to the appropriate user path. + Adds support for extended match patterns: @(...), +(...), *(...), ?(...), and !(...). + Adds ability to match path names via the path centric globmatch. + Provides a pathlib variant that uses Wildcard Match's glob library instead of Python's default. + Provides an alternative file crawler called wcmatch. + And more... + + -- cgit v1.2.3-65-gdbad