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On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 6:18 PM Felix Bier <Felix.Bier@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> This commit enables recursive globbing in clear_path, allowing the |
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> usage of '**' to match an arbitrary number of sub-directories. |
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> Before this commit, clear_path used only non-recursive globbing. This |
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> allowed to use '*' to expand names within one directory, e.g. '/a/*/c' |
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> can expand to '/a/b/c', but not '/a/b/b/c'. With this commit, '/a/**/c' |
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> can be used to expand to '/a/b/c', '/a/b/b/c', '/a/b/b/b/c' etc. |
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> This is motivated by wanting to recursively delete all occurences of a |
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> filename with the 'stage4/rm' entry of a spec file. The '/rm' entries |
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> are processed with 'clear_path' in the existing code. |
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> Additionally, 'glob.glob' is replaced with 'glob.iglob', |
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> which returns the same files as 'glob.glob', but as an iterator |
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> instead of as a list (so it no longer necessary to hold |
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> all matches in memory at once). |
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> Recursive globbing has been added in Python 3.5. |
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> References: |
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> https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html#glob.glob |
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> https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html#glob.iglob |
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Nice, thank you. Committed! |
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