appending * to glob returns files with '*' !!

[Erik Max Francis]

John [H2O] wrote:

> I have a glob.glob search:
> 
> searchstring = os.path.join('path'+'EN*')
> files = glob.glob(searchstring)
> for f in files:
>      print f
> 
> 
> ___
> This returns some files:
> EN082333
> EN092334
> EN*
> 
> My routine cannot handle the '*' and it should'nt be returned anyway? :-/
> 
> A bug?

No, it means you actually have a file named 'EN*' in the directory.

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