On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 12:11:51AM +0100, Victor Stinner wrote:
Hi,
This idea was already proposed as part of a larger PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0471/#wildcard-support
The PEP explains why the Windows wildcard idea was rejected.
The Windows wildcard idea was rejected in the context of a faster os.walk, not globbing. The PEP is inaccurate: it gives the wrong Python-Ideas thread for discussions on the wildcard idea. The wildcard idea is discussed in this thread: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-November/017965.html not in the thread given in the PEP. Well, I say "discussed", but it's mostly ignored, with only a couple of comments. There's somewhat more discussion on Python-Dev: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-June/135217.html but it's mostly people just saying "-1 on wildcards". I agree with this decision, for PEP 471. But I don't believe this is relevant to the question of explicit globbing. -- Steve