why does activestate (win98) python not support globbing

[Robert Amesz]

Steve Holden wrote:

>If you *don't* glob by default then Unix works OK. But DOS/Windows
>passes you unglobbed names, expecting you to glob them, so you don't
>find the files.
>
>Perhaps I should have said "ugly"? The environments aren't
>consistent 

"Ugly" describes it to a tee, I'd say. You'd need to test in which 
environment your script is running, and glob only if you're in a non-
globbing environment.


Lets see... The standard os.py checks for 'posix', 'nt', 'dos', 'os2', 
'mac' and 'ce' environments. I'm not 100% sure, so correct me if I'm 
wrong, but of those I believe only posix globs. That would present us a 
solution of limited ugliness:

import sys,glob

def GetGlobbedArgs():
   if 'posix' in sys.builtin_module_names:
      return sys.argv
   first = 1
   for name in sys.argv:
      if first:
         newargs = [name]
         first=0
       else:
         newargs.append(glob.glob(name))
   return newargs

(It's untested so caveats apply in full.)

Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a function like that somewhere in 
the standard library?


>but-when-did-vendors-try-to-be-consistent-ly y'rs  -
>[Ss][Tt][Ee][Vv][Ee] 

Hey, a regex'ed, case insensitive first name! Why not make it into

  [Ss][Tt][Ee]+[Vv][Ie]?[Ee] 

In that case it also matches the way your mother used to call you when 
dinner was ready. <g>


Robert Amesz
-- 
Sorry, couldn't resist