pythongh-73435 - Implement recursive wildcards in pathlib.PurePath.match()

Add a new *recursive* argument to `pathlib.PurePath.match()`, defaulting
to `False`. If set to true, `match()` handles the `**` wildcard as in
`Path.glob()`, i.e. it matches any number of path segments.

We now compile a `re.Pattern` object for the entire pattern. This is made
more difficult by `fnmatch` not treating directory separators as special
when evaluating wildcards (`*`, `?`, etc), and so we arrange the path parts
onto separate *lines* in a string, and ensure we don't set `re.DOTALL`.

Author: barneygale

Doc/library/pathlib.rst

@@ -544,11 +544,14 @@ Pure paths provide the following methods and properties:
       PureWindowsPath('c:/Program Files')
 
 
-.. method:: PurePath.match(pattern)
+.. method:: PurePath.match(pattern, recursive=False)
 
    Match this path against the provided glob-style pattern.  Return ``True``
    if matching is successful, ``False`` otherwise.
 
+   If *recursive* is true, the pattern "``**``" will match any number of file
+   or directory segments.
+
    If *pattern* is relative, the path can be either relative or absolute,
    and matching is done from the right::
 
@@ -574,6 +577,9 @@ Pure paths provide the following methods and properties:
       >>> PureWindowsPath('b.py').match('*.PY')
       True
 
+   .. versionadded:: 3.12
+      The *recursive* argument.
+
 
 .. method:: PurePath.relative_to(other, walk_up=False)
 

Lib/fnmatch.py

@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ def translate(pat):
     There is no way to quote meta-characters.
     """
 
+    res = _translate(pat)
+    return fr'(?s:{res})\Z'
+
+
+def _translate(pat):
     STAR = object()
     res = []
     add = res.append
@@ -182,4 +187,4 @@ def translate(pat):
             add(f"(?>.*?{fixed})")
     assert i == n
     res = "".join(res)
-    return fr'(?s:{res})\Z'
+    return res

Lib/pathlib.py

@@ -64,6 +64,25 @@ def _is_wildcard_pattern(pat):
 # Globbing helpers
 #
 
+@functools.lru_cache()
+def _make_matcher(path_cls, pattern, recursive):
+    pattern = path_cls(pattern)
+    if not pattern._parts:
+        raise ValueError("empty pattern")
+    result = [r'\A' if pattern._drv or pattern._root else '^']
+    for part in pattern._parts_normcase:
+        if recursive:
+            if part == '**':
+                result.append('(.+\n)*')
+                continue
+            elif '**' in part:
+                raise ValueError("Invalid pattern: '**' can only be an entire path component")
+        part = fnmatch._translate(part)
+        result.append(f'{part}\n')
+    result.append(r'\Z')
+    return re.compile(''.join(result), flags=re.MULTILINE)
+
+
 @functools.lru_cache()
 def _make_selector(pattern_parts, flavour):
     pat = pattern_parts[0]
@@ -639,29 +658,13 @@ def is_reserved(self):
         name = self._parts[-1].partition('.')[0].partition(':')[0].rstrip(' ')
         return name.upper() in _WIN_RESERVED_NAMES
 
-    def match(self, path_pattern):
+    def match(self, path_pattern, recursive=False):
         """
         Return True if this path matches the given pattern.
         """
-        path_pattern = self._flavour.normcase(path_pattern)
-        drv, root, pat_parts = self._parse_parts((path_pattern,))
-        if not pat_parts:
-            raise ValueError("empty pattern")
-        elif drv and drv != self._flavour.normcase(self._drv):
-            return False
-        elif root and root != self._root:
-            return False
-        parts = self._parts_normcase
-        if drv or root:
-            if len(pat_parts) != len(parts):
-                return False
-            pat_parts = pat_parts[1:]
-        elif len(pat_parts) > len(parts):
-            return False
-        for part, pat in zip(reversed(parts), reversed(pat_parts)):
-            if not fnmatch.fnmatchcase(part, pat):
-                return False
-        return True
+        matcher = _make_matcher(type(self), path_pattern, recursive)
+        lines = ''.join(f'{part}\n' for part in self._parts_normcase)
+        return matcher.search(lines) is not None
 
 # Can't subclass os.PathLike from PurePath and keep the constructor
 # optimizations in PurePath._parse_args().