[Python-ideas] Adding '**' recursive search to glob.glob (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Jan 14 17:21:20 CET 2013

Le Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:14:55 +0200, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> a écrit :

> One obvious downside is that if used carelessly, it can make > globbing pretty slow. So I'd propose that it be added as an > optional extension enabled using a flag argument (glob(pat, > allowrecursive=True)) which is false by default. That would also > mean that backward compatibility should not be an issue. Indeed. That's why I added the "recursive" parameter and disable this by default.

Using APIs carelessly is the user's problem, not ours. It should be sufficient to add a small warning in the docs, as I did in pathlib:

https://pathlib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/#pathlib.Path.glob

Regards

Antoine.

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