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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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