Re: [Python-ideas] dir with a glob?

Nick Coghlan wrote:

However, this now needs a tracker issue and a patch - as a builtin that may legitimately be used before the import machinery is fully initialised, it isn't really acceptable for dir() to depend on the fnmatch module just for this feature, so implementing this isn't going to be quite as easy as it might otherwise be.

When does site.py run? If it is guaranteed to run after the import machinery is working, then perhaps the simplest solution is to patch built-ins in site.py, similar to how help() and quit() are added. -- Steven