Jan. 5, 2015
1:40 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015, at 20:31, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I think you are mistaken that nothing uses glob:
I am very confident in saying that programs that do not use glob _to process lists of filenames given on the command line_ outnumber those that do at least 1000:1, and that the vast majority of your search consists of uses for processing things other than command line arguments.
The vast majority of results (I used https://searchcode.com/?q=glob.glob+lang%3Apython so I could see the actual call in context) are using it for hardcoded strings, not command line arguments (and to do it correctly they should do even that conditionally on os.name == 'nt' [or os2 or ce, not sure about the other non-posix values])