python 2.7.12 on Linux behaving differently than on Windows

[Lew Pitcher]

On Thursday December 8 2016 11:48, in comp.lang.python, "Random832"
<random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016, at 15:29, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> But, point of fact is that the feature to disable globbing is not often
>> needed. Most Unix programs that accept filenames are happy to accept a
>> list of filenames. There is not much call for a program to perform it's own
>> globbing, like is required in Windows.
>> 
>> In fact, I can only think of three Unix "commandline" programs that need
>> shell globbing disabled:
>>   find - which performs it's own filename matching
>>   grep - which uses regular expressions to search the contents of files,
>>   and
>>   sed  - which uses regular expressions to edit the contents of files.
>> (I'm sure that there are a few more examples, though).
> 
> tar can do its own filename matching in some contexts, to match files
> inside the archive for example.
> 
> 7z does its own filename matching to allow distinguishing "extract from
> multiple archives" [x \*.zip] from "extract a list of filenames from a
> single archive" [x a.zip b.zip] - a BartC-compliant command line
> paradigm if I ever saw one. I suspect it also allows you to match files
> inside the archives in the list part.
> 
> scp lets you pass glob patterns to be matched on the remote server.
> also, quoting for scp is somewhat unpleasant, since metacharacters in
> general, not just globs but also $variables, quotes,`commands` etc, are
> interpreted by both the local shell and the remote shell. sftp is a
> little more sane, but still has remote globs for fetching, and quotes to
> escape those globs.


True. I had forgotten those.

Still, it's a short list of programs that either need to do their own
globbing, or need the shell to NOT glob for them. 

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Lew Pitcher
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