söndagen den 8 juni 2008 18.37.30 skrev Florian Köberle: (please retatain who said what) > >> Unsupported are colon expressions like ":alpha:". I didn't expect git-add to support it, but as I just noticed git does. > > Maybe we should anticipate it and throw an exception if one tries the pattern and not treat it as [alph:] . > > > > Well we noted they were broken in Git so (separate thread) so we may as well try something sane. > Just did some tests and noted that the shell and git does not support > them. I guess I thought that they work because [:alpha:] matched "a". > > Hi Robin > > The bash shell doesn't support [:alpha:] too: > $ mkdir test > $ cd test > $ touch a > $ touch b > $ touch : > $ ls [:alpha:] > : a Oh, it does. [:alpha:] is a character class, like a-z. So you use [[:alpha:]], which is what git as well as bash understands. > The fnmatch function of the python module fnmatch > (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fnmatch.html) does not support > :alpha: too. > > example: > $python > >>> from fnmatch import fnmatch > >>> fnmatch("a","[:alpha:]") > False Hmm. Odd: $ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 12 2008, 01:47:55) [GCC 4.2.3 (4.2.3-6mnb1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from fnmatch import fnmatch >>> fnmatch("a","[:alpha:]") True But then, it's matching the a(s), not the character class. >>> fnmatch("x","[:alpha:]") False >>> fnmatch("x","[[:alpha:]]") False -- robin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
