[Python-ideas] dir with a glob?

[Steven D'Aprano]

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> However, this now needs a tracker issue and a patch - as a builtin
> that may legitimately be used before the import machinery is fully
> initialised, it isn't really acceptable for dir() to depend on the
> fnmatch module just for this feature, so implementing this isn't going
> to be quite as easy as it might otherwise be.

When does site.py run? If it is guaranteed to run after the import 
machinery is working, then perhaps the simplest solution is to patch 
built-ins in site.py, similar to how help() and quit() are added.

-- 
Steven