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| author | Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> | 2013-02-23 18:53:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> | 2013-02-23 18:53:27 (GMT) |
| commit | ee4a20bad61b9315bb28e0162eefd7f0da110499 (patch) | |
| tree | b2eeb1142863da0cda333b5d6ff85d6fadb53584 /Lib/glob.py | |
| parent | 9f74c6cf7d0fd6188194e7bba8f059843b9c3c89 (diff) | |
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Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a dot
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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/glob.py | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/glob.py b/Lib/glob.py index f16e8e1..1f60265 100644 --- a/Lib/glob.py +++ b/Lib/glob.py @@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ __all__ = ["glob", "iglob"] def glob(pathname): """Return a list of paths matching a pathname pattern. - The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la fnmatch. + The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la + fnmatch. However, unlike fnmatch, filenames starting with a + dot are special cases that are not matched by '*' and '?' + patterns. """ return list(iglob(pathname)) @@ -17,7 +20,10 @@ def glob(pathname): def iglob(pathname): """Return an iterator which yields the paths matching a pathname pattern. - The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la fnmatch. + The pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards a la + fnmatch. However, unlike fnmatch, filenames starting with a + dot are special cases that are not matched by '*' and '?' + patterns. """ if not has_magic(pathname): |