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

[John [H2O]]

No bug indeed, Erik was correct, in fact I had files with the * in the
name...

Thanks all for your replies!


Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> 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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