younotyou

Filter a list of strings and/or paths based on include and exclude patterns.

Installation

Install with:

pip install younotyou

Convenient one stop shop to include and exclude strings using glob style pattern matching.

Usage

Patterns can be literals or glob style wildcard strings.
Exclusion patterns override include patterns, i.e. if an item matches an include pattern but also matches an exclude pattern, it will be excluded.

>>> from younotyou import younotyou
>>> strings = ["thispattern", "aPaTtErN", "mypatterns"]
>>> younotyou(strings, ["*pattern"])
['thispattern']
>>> younotyou(strings, ["*pattern*"])
['thispattern', 'mypatterns']
>>> younotyou(strings, ["*pattern*"], case_sensitive=False)
['thispattern', 'aPaTtErN', 'mypatterns']
>>> younotyou(strings, ["*pattern*"], ["my*", "*is*"], case_sensitive=False)
['aPaTtErN']
>>> younotyou(strings, exclude_patterns=["*PaT*"])
['thispattern', 'mypatterns']
>>> younotyou(strings, exclude_patterns=["*PaT*"], case_sensitive=False)
[]
>>> younotyou(strings, include_patterns=["*PaT*"], exclude_patterns=["*PaT*"], case_sensitive=False)
[]