Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: The first version I wrote *did* automatically invoke shlex.quote on all interpolated values, but that breaks wildcard handling. You can see that in the examples I posted above. With the default whitespace escaping (which allows spaces in filenames), wildcard matching still works (thus the list of directories matching the "../py*" pattern), but with full quoting it breaks (thus the "nothing named '../py*'" result).
So I figured the simplest default was "you can have spaces in your filenames, but otherwise you can do what you want". Now that I have the 'unquoted' conversion specifier, I'm open to tweaking that scheme to allow the same chars that shlex.quote does *plus* specifically the wildcard matching chars (i.e. '*', '?'). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13238> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
