Wildcard String Comparison

[megamanzz]

i'm trying to do a string comparison for 2 strings, one of which has a wild card..
In mel there was a way of doign this using gmatch.

CODE
if (gmatch(apple, "*ple")

in the above example: if the first string ends with the characters "ple" then true will be returned

i would need to do a very similar thing in python. If at all possible

[uiron]

like most programming languages, python uses regular expressions to match strings by some pattern. this may not only include wildcards, but also more sophisticated rules of matching strings. google for "regular expressions" and "regular expressions python" for more info, this cannot be covered by small reply and i CBA doing that.

[uiron]

if you only need to check if some string variable contains another string, like, "apple" contains "ple", you can simply check if stringVariable.find('ple') returns >=0.

CODE
a = 'apple'
if a.find('ple')>=0:
  print 'ple found'

if a.find('plet')>=0:
  print 'plet not found'

[megamanzz]

thank you uiron..
i will research further into 'regular expressions'

[anuska]

I love regular expression but in this case there is a simple solution.

a = 'apple'
a.endswith('ple')