Andre Delfino writes:
Frequently, while globbing, one needs to work with multiple extensions. I’d like to propose for fnmatch.filter to handle a tuple of patterns (while preserving the single str argument functionality, alas str.endswith),
This is one of those famous 3-line functions, though: import fnmatch def multifilter(names, *patterns): result = [] for p in patterns: result.extend(fnmatch.filter(names, p) return result It's a 3-line function in 5 lines, OK, but still.
as a first step for glob.i?glob to accept multiple patterns as well.
If you're going to improve the glob module, why not use bash or zsh extended globbing ('**', '{a,b}') as the model? This is more powerful, and already familiar to many users.