why does activestate (win98) python not support globbing

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:25:43 -0700, Bob Cannard <bob_cannard at mentor.com> pisze:

> from glob import glob
> for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
>     for name in glob(arg):
> 
> This generally works in Unix also, where the glob effectively
> becomes a no-op.

Not exactly. When I want to pass a filename containing characters
like * or [, I quote it for the shell. This would break it.

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