[issue28718] '*' matches entire path in fnmatch

Toon Verstraelen added the comment: Just for reference, here are a few more implementations of the same idea, next to pywildcard, sometimes combined with other useful features: - https://github.com/LawfulHacker/fnmatch2 - https://github.com/demurgos/py-pathmatch -

[issue28718] '*' matches entire path in fnmatch

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[issue28718] '*' matches entire path in fnmatch

Toon Verstraelen added the comment: For consistency with the corresponding feature in the glob function since Python 3.5, I would suggest to add an extra optional argument 'recursive' instead of 'glob_asterisks'. With the default recursive=False, one gets the old behavior, with

[issue28718] '*' matches entire path in fnmatch

Alberto Galera added the comment: I see that they have commented on the lib that I made a few years ago (python-wildcard). The reason for the creation of that little fork started in this issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue25734 -- nosy: +Alberto Galera

[issue28718] '*' matches entire path in fnmatch

Aaron Whitehouse added the comment: Posted to the [Python-ideas] mailing list, as it is proposing a change to a standard library: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2017-February/044880.html Nobody has responded so far, however. I take this as at least no vehement objection to the

[issue28718] '*' matches entire path in fnmatch

Aaron Whitehouse added the comment: Note that somebody has forked the standard library to implement this: https://github.com/kianxineki/python-wildcard This shows that the actual changes would be pretty small (though pywildcard is based on 2.x code and does not handle the cross-platform slashes