Feature request: glob functionality

[benkrikler]

Is it reasonable to consider adding glob functionality to the python bindings? I'd be happy to try and implement this myself, but I wanted to check how it would be received and if there were suggested approaches. I imagine this being a new function within the FileSystem module that replicates the standard glob package. Given a path containing wildcards (potentially more than one), a list of files that match this (as per fnmatch) should be returned.

Just some context on why I'd like to do this: I've previously added such functionality into the rootpy project (here), but I now wanted to get such functionality without requiring ROOT to be installed rootpy.

(This is a duplicate of this issue xrootd/xrootd#832, but this seems like the more appropriate repository and I haven't had a response there. I'm happy to close one of these issues if one is more appropriately located than the other)

[benkrikler]

I've implemented this feature into a package I'm working on: https://gitlab.cern.ch/fast-hep/public/fast-curator/blob/master/fast_curator/xrootd_glob.py

I'd be happy to move that implementation back into these python bindings if desirable and then I'd remove the implementation from my own work.

[simonmichal]

Hi Ben,
Thanks for taking initiative and sorry for the late response! Actually, python bindings have been integrated into the core, and this repo is not being used any more. So I will close this issue and continue the conversation in your other ticket.

Michal