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author | Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> | 2013-02-23 19:56:15 +0100 |
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committer | Petri Lehtinen <petri@digip.org> | 2013-02-23 19:56:15 +0100 |
commit | 1edd2473946cec3879a42c9d2635e31ac7b070a2 (patch) | |
tree | ecd02dfe58ce58676c8dcbb7aabc76c50befac43 /Lib/glob.py | |
parent | 47524c97290342c7fab5f4ded1f8875fb3526f49 (diff) | |
parent | 0bd7bafebca3509d1263d547d4b9e275c58e1eaf (diff) | |
download | cpython-1edd2473946cec3879a42c9d2635e31ac7b070a2.tar.gz |
Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a dot
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/glob.py')
-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 c9f811720a..1a268a3ad1 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): |