why does activestate (win98) python not support globbing
Robert Amesz
rcameszREMOVETHIS at dds.removethistoo.nl
Fri Apr 13 19:28:59 EDT 2001
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
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