From: Ezio Melotti Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:36:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: improved phrasing, markup and example X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~465 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2fd3592e70a420574021f26ca265a4ec8006945b;p=python improved phrasing, markup and example --- diff --git a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst index ce49a39a8b..67aa2f483f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst +++ b/Doc/library/fnmatch.rst @@ -37,11 +37,12 @@ patterns. .. function:: fnmatch(filename, pattern) - Test whether the *filename* string matches the *pattern* string, returning true - or false. If the operating system is case-insensitive, then both parameters - will be normalized to all lower- or upper-case before the comparison is - performed. If you require a case-sensitive comparison regardless of whether - that's standard for your operating system, use :func:`fnmatchcase` instead. + Test whether the *filename* string matches the *pattern* string, returning + :const:`True` or :const:`False`. If the operating system is case-insensitive, + then both parameters will be normalized to all lower- or upper-case before + the comparison is performed. :func:`fnmatchcase` can be used to perform a + case-sensitive comparison, regardless of whether that's standard for the + operating system. This example will print all file names in the current directory with the extension ``.txt``:: @@ -56,8 +57,8 @@ patterns. .. function:: fnmatchcase(filename, pattern) - Test whether *filename* matches *pattern*, returning true or false; the - comparison is case-sensitive. + Test whether *filename* matches *pattern*, returning :const:`True` or + :const:`False`; the comparison is case-sensitive. .. function:: filter(names, pattern) @@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ patterns. >>> regex '.*\\.txt$' >>> reobj = re.compile(regex) - >>> print reobj.match('foobar.txt') + >>> reobj.match('foobar.txt') <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...>