On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 1:37:45 PM UTC-8, Ben Finney wrote: > Jinghui Niu <niujing...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi, I've been studying python 3 modules. I'm a bit confused about the > > possibly overlap between fnmatch() and glob(), they seem to achieve > > the same goals exactly. Why duplicate? > > >From the module documentation: > > Note that unlike fnmatch.fnmatch(), glob treats filenames beginning > with a dot (.) as special cases. > > <URL:https://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.html> > > So the goals are different: 'glob.glob' has the goal of matching closer > to the Unix meaning of glob patterns, where filenames starting with a > "." character are conventionally treated as "hidden by default". > > -- > \ "We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just | > `\ stuff that works." --Douglas Adams | > _o__) | > Ben Finney
Thank you for your reply. So if for a beginner learner who doesn't care so much about Unix-compliant, which one is a better choice for learning purpose? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
