Guido van Rossum wrote: > Glob was just an example. Many use cases for directory traversal > couldn't care less if they see *all* files. > Okay. Makes it harder to prove correct or not if I don't know what the use case is :-) I can't think of a single use case off-hand.
Even your example of a ??.txt file making retrieval of *.py files fail is a little broken. If there was a ??.py file that was undecodable the program would most likely want to know that file existed. -Toshio
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