[Python-Dev] The path module PEP (original) (raw)

Toby Dickenson tdickenson at devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk
Wed Jan 25 13:30:06 CET 2006

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 20:22, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:

Replacing glob.glob -------------------

glob.glob("/lib/*.so") ==> Path("/lib").glob("*.so")

This definition seems confusing because it splits the glob pattern string in two ('/lib', and '*.so'). Unless there is an intention to change the behavior of the current glob module, why not make the glob method parameterless:

glob.glob("/lib/*.so")
==>
Path("/lib/*.so").glob()

Possible confusion with the one parameter version:

Does glob matching happen on the first half too? That is, does Path('').glob('.so') match files in any directory, or only directories whose name is an asterisk.

What behavior can I expect from Path('/foo/').glob(bar), where bar is some arbitrary string? It could be reasonable to expect that it would only match filenames inside the foo directory. However it could also be reasonable to expect to use bar=='/etc/*'

-- Toby Dickenson

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