On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>wrote:
Yuck, then the reader has to know what features are
enabled by which version numbers -- not something that's easy to keep in one's head.
True. But neither are a plethora of enable_feature flags. Is it allow_recursion or allow_recursive or enable_double_star? Globbing is not likely to be something that most people use often enough that the name of the arguments will stick in their head. People will likely need to look it up one way or the other.
I see nothing wrong with asking people to consult the documentation for features they don't use that frequently. Better to check the docs than get it wrong. But the reader of the code is more likely to notice something special is going on when they see glob(..., allow_recursive=True) then rglob(...). And I'd rather have flags than rglob to allow recursion and iglob to ignore case and then either riglob or irglob to do both. Yuck. --- Bruce Check this out: http://bit.ly/yearofpuzzles