[docs] [issue8402] Add a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch
Ezio Melotti
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Oct 15 16:16:14 CEST 2012
Ezio Melotti added the comment:
I think the escaping workaround should be documented in the glob and/or fnmatch docs. This way users can simply do:
import glob
glob.glob("c:\abc\afolderwith[[]test]\*")
rather than
import glob
import fnmatch
glob.glob(fnmatch.escape("c:\abc\afolderwith[test]\") + "*")
The function might still be useful with patterns constructed programmatically, but I'm not sure how common the problem really is.
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