Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > My view is that people using fnmatch/glob are expecting to get back > the same list of files that they would if they ran 'echo > <globpattern>' in the shell.
But it's not the case since we currently don't process braces anyway. > The major shells (sh, bash, zsh, csh) seem to be pretty consistent in > this regard (though sh does less brace expansion than the others...but > is almost always actually bash these days). Excluding the 95% (or so) of Windows users, I suppose. > The special magic of fnmatch/glob is that it does a > not-so-easy-to-get-right transformation of *shell* globbing rules into > regular expressions behind the scenes. That is, in my view its > *purpose* is to be compatible with the "normal rules" for unix shell > globbing. I've never thought that the purpose of glob or fnmatch was to reproduce shell rules. It's simply a convenient primitive. Wildcard expansion exists in lots of other software than Unix shells. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9584> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
