OT: Re: [Tutor] Re: accepting wild chars from pythons command line

[Magnus Lycka]

At 23:34 2002-10-21 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
>Actually, python will never see the '*' character.  The /shell/
>expands it first.  Depending on your system and environment, that
>shell is often one of  bash, ash, csh, tcsh, ksh, zsh, command.com or
>cmd.exe.  The beauty of shell metacharacters is that the shell handles
>their expansion and your program can't tell the difference.

It seems you don't use Windows...you lucky bastard! ;)

Neither cmd.exe not command.com will do anything with
* or other wildcard characters.

That's why you could write

copy *.txt *.bak

in DOS to create backup versions for all your text
files. In the days when most people knew DOS, this
was often a confusing problem for Unix newbies...


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