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authorPetri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>2013-02-23 18:53:03 (GMT)
committerPetri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org>2013-02-23 18:53:27 (GMT)
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Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a dot
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib')
-rw-r--r--Lib/glob.py10
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):