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Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob()

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2016-03-07 16:53 -0800
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Subject Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob()
From Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com>

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On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 1:37:45 PM UTC-8, Ben Finney wrote:
> Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi, I've been studying python 3 modules. I'm a bit confused about the
> > possibly overlap between fnmatch() and glob(), they seem to achieve
> > the same goals exactly. Why duplicate?
> 
> >From the module documentation:
> 
>     Note that unlike fnmatch.fnmatch(), glob treats filenames beginning
>     with a dot (.) as special cases.
> 
>     <URL:https://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.html>
> 
> So the goals are different: 'glob.glob' has the goal of matching closer
> to the Unix meaning of glob patterns, where filenames starting with a
> "." character are conventionally treated as "hidden by default".
> 
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> Ben Finney

Thank you for your reply. So if for a beginner learner who doesn't care so much about Unix-compliant, which one is a better choice for learning purpose?

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fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 12:17 -0800
  Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 08:37 +1100
    Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 16:53 -0800
      Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 12:00 +1100
        Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 17:04 -0800
          Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 12:16 +1100
            Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Jinghui Niu <niujinghui@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 17:37 -0800
              Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-08 12:49 +1100
              Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-08 12:56 +1100
              Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-03-08 02:35 +0000
          Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob() Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-08 13:19 +1100

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