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

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: fnmatch() vs. glob.glob()
Date 2016-03-08 08:37 +1100
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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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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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