Steven D'Aprano writes:
In any case, having a platform specific globbing module
By "platform-specific", do you mean one module that handles all platforms appropriately (what this thread is about), or do you mean per-platform modules (what "platform-specific" means to me)?
is looking more and more useful. Does this need a PEP?
If you're really serious about putting it in the stdlib, I would certainly think so. It's absolutely clear that the solution is going to be complicated and hard to understand. Without a PEP, nobody will know what is and what is not a bug. Likely even with a PEP a lot of people will claim the PEP is buggy no matter what it says! I would hope the different specs will partition the complainers, but I'm not even sure of that. ;-)