Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > 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.
Why? Most programs won't be able to do anything with it. And if the program *can* do something with it... that's what the bytes version of the APIs are for. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
