Jan. 7, 2015
2:44 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 19:42, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
The PEP is inaccurate: it gives the wrong Python-Ideas thread for discussions on the wildcard idea. The wildcard idea is discussed in this thread:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-November/017965.html
I think the fundamental difference between these cases is in handling user-entered strings, especially command-line arguments (where the user will expect them to behave a certain way, in particular "*.*" matching all files even those with no dot - most of the other quirks are obscure anyway) vs hardcoded (where expectations are determined by the programmer, not the user).