[Python-Dev] PEP 428 - pathlib API questions (original) (raw)

Ben Hoyt benhoyt at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 00:42:08 CET 2013

Using "**" for directory spanning globs is also another case of us borrowing a reasonably common idiom from *nix systems that may not be familiar to Windows users.

Okay, *nix wins then. :-) Python's stdlib is already fairly *nix-oriented (even when it's being cross-platform), so I guess it's not a big deal.

My only remaining concern then is that there shouldn't be more than one way to do recursive globbing in a new API like this. Why does rglob() exist when the documentation simply says "like calling glob() but with '**' added in front of the pattern"?

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path.rglob

-Ben

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