import re def translate(pattern): r""" Given a glob pattern, produce a regex that matches it. >>> translate('*.txt') '[^/]*\\.txt' >>> translate('a?txt') 'a[^/]txt' >>> translate('**/*') '.*/[^/]*' """ return ''.join(map(replace, separate(pattern))) def separate(pattern): """ Separate out character sets to avoid translating their contents. >>> [m.group(0) for m in separate('*.txt')] ['*.txt'] >>> [m.group(0) for m in separate('a[?]txt')] ['a', '[?]', 'txt'] """ return re.finditer(r'([^\[]+)|(?P[\[].*?[\]])|([\[][^\]]*$)', pattern) def replace(match): """ Perform the replacements for a match from :func:`separate`. """ return match.group('set') or ( re.escape(match.group(0)) .replace('\\*\\*', r'.*') .replace('\\*', r'[^/]*') .replace('\\?', r'[^/]') )