Nov. 24, 2013
11:42 p.m.
Using "**" for directory spanning globs is also another case of us borrowing a reasonably common idiom from *nix systems that may not be familiar to Windows users.
Okay, *nix wins then. :-) Python's stdlib is already fairly *nix-oriented (even when it's being cross-platform), so I guess it's not a big deal. My only remaining concern then is that there shouldn't be more than one way to do recursive globbing in a new API like this. Why does rglob() exist when the documentation simply says "like calling glob() but with '**' added in front of the pattern"? http://docs.python.org/dev/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path.rglob -Ben