why does activestate (win98) python not support globbing

[Robert Amesz]

Steve Holden wrote:

>"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote ...
>> Paul Prescodwrote:
>>> It's simply Windows versus Unix. On Unix the *shell* does
>>> globbing. The program never sees the unexpanded filename. On
>>> Windows, the application must do globbing (if it wants to).
>> 
>> to be precise, it's a linking issue.  to get globbing behaviour,
>> just link the executable with setargv.obj (provided with visual
>> C). 
>> 
>> for some reason, GvR didn't want this as a default.  cannot recall
>> his arguments, though...
>> 
>Seems sensible since it's not the platform default for other command
>line programs? Nasty to have to glob wildcards, but consistent with
>the DOS heritage.

Why nasty? This is one instance were I think UNIX has got it wrong. 
It's much better to leave commandline parameters alone than to try and 
interpret them in a particular way. Explicit is better than implicit.

Robert Amesz