[Python-ideas] Curly braces expansion in shell-like matcher modules

[Fred Drake]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> IMO, fnmatch is the right place for such an enhancement.
> (and, as the doc states, “glob uses fnmatch() to match pathname
> segments”).

This is a good reason not to push the implementation down into glob,
actually: the expansion may cross segment boundaries:

    for{bar/turtle,car/monkey}_test.*

should expand to the two patterns:

    foobar/turtle_test.*
    foocar/monkey_test.*


  -Fred

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