On 2007-04-26, Pieter Edelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently writing a command-line program in Python, which takes
> commands in the form of:
> ./myprog.py [OPTIONS] ARGS
> So pretty standard stuff. In my case, ARGS is a list of image files.
>
> One of the possible options is to specify a file holding information
> about the photos. You'd specify it with (in this particular case) the -
> t switch, and you can specify multiple files by repeating this switch:
> ./myprog.py -t info1.gpx -t info2.gpx -t info3.gpx *jpg
>
> Now, one of the users has quite a lot of info files, and asked me if
> it's possible to use a wildcard in specifying these, so he would just
> have to do:
> ./myprog.py -t *.gpx *.jpg
>
> This seems like a sensible option at first sight, but it's difficult
> to implement because the wildcard is expanded by the shell,
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