[Python-ideas] Adding '**' recursive search to glob.glob

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:21:40 +0200,
Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> a
écrit :
> On 14.01.13 17:46, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> > Isn't the requirement to recurse implied by the presence of '**' in
> > the pattern? What's to be gained by specifying it using
> > allow_recursive as well?
> 
> I'll be glad to make it enabled by default, however I'm feeling this
> is too dangerous. glob('**') on FS root takes too long time. Perhaps
> that's why (and for backward compatibility) this option (called
> "starglob") is disabled by default in Bash.

But there's no reason to write glob('**') with the current API.

Regards

Antoine.