Can I create OSC message handlers containing wildcards?

Question

I am trying to create an OSC msg handler, using pyosc, which can listen to incoming multitoggle messages from TouchOSC.

The multitoggle is a grid of toggleswitches. The incoming messages are in the form "/1/multitoggle1/5/8" or "/1/multitoggle1/x/y" where x and y are integers corresponding to the grid position.

server.addMsgHandler( "/1/multitoggle1/5/8", toggle_callback ) works fine but I need the 5 and the 8 to be arguments read in the handler so I can get at them without having to add a separate handler for each individual toggle.

s.addMsgHandler( "/1/multitoggle1/", toggle_callback ) does not seem to work.

It is a similar problem to this one but I can't implement the implied solution.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and this was my solution:

for x in range(1,9):
    for y in range(1,6):
        s.addMsgHandler("/Channels/toggleChannels/"+`y`+"/"+`x`, toggleChannels)

def toggleChannels(addr,tags,data,source):
    split = addr.split("/")
    x = split.pop()
    y = split.pop()

I registered all handlers but used only one callback, worked great