[Python-ideas] Make fnmatch.filter accept a tuple of patterns

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 02:49:00AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> If you're going to improve the glob module, why not use bash or zsh
> extended globbing ('**', '{a,b}') as the model?  This is more
> powerful, and already familiar to many users.

I thought it did support extended globbing?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html#glob.glob

But brace expansion should be a thing. For backwards compatibility 
reasons, we probably need a switch to turn it on, or a separate function 
call, or maybe a deprecation period.



-- 
Steve