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Re: Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell
Date 2016-05-03 23:15 +0200
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Sayth Renshaw wrote:

> Is there something obvious to this I am doing wrong?

>     parser.add_argument("path", nargs="+") 
 
The "+" implicitly turns args.path into a list

>     files |= set(glob.glob(args.path + '/*' + args.extension))

so the glob() argument is evaluated as

list + str + str

Try

name_pattern = "*" + args.extension
for path in args.path:
    files.update(glob.glob(os.path.join(path, name_pattern)))

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Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 04:34 -0700
  Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 13:55 -0700
    Re: Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-05-03 23:15 +0200
      Re: Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 00:56 -0700
      Re: Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-04 00:57 -0700
        Re: Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-15 20:21 -0700
          Re: Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-05-16 08:58 +0200
    Re: Trouble porting glob bash behavior with argparse to windows shell Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-05-03 18:00 -0400

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