why does activestate (win98) python not support globbing

[Steve Holden]

"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.

regards
 Steve