On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:

We need a time machine to publish this warning in 1994, before anyone used the glob in his program.

Pathlib has an advantage in this.

The following have been discussed already:

- deprecate the 'glob' module, moving its functionality to shutil

- "starglob" or "use_recursive" option

- have a separate "rglob" or "tree" function do this for you

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2012-February/thread.html#159056

And more at https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail.python.org+recursive+glob

The patch has been discussed to death already. Not to say that it's too late to speak your mind, but I think if it passes the proper tests and review - it should go in.

Yuval Greenfield