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Title: Clarify fnmatch & glob docs about the handling of leading "."s
Type: enhancement Stage: resolved
Components: Documentation Versions: Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 2.7
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: docs@python Nosy List: Sebastian.Kreft, docs@python, hynek, nailor, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev
Priority: normal Keywords: easy, patch

Created on 2012-12-16 10:32 by hynek, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Files
File name Uploaded Description Edit
issue16695.patch nailor, 2013-02-23 15:06
issue16695_2.patch nailor, 2013-02-23 15:50
Messages (5)
msg177584 - (view) Author: Hynek Schlawack (hynek) * (Python committer) Date: 2012-12-16 10:32
See issue16664.
msg182749 - (view) Author: Jyrki Pulliainen (nailor) * Date: 2013-02-23 15:06
I modified the docstring for the glob and iglob to note that the match does not work exactly like fnmatch.

Should this be extended to the documentation too?
msg182753 - (view) Author: Jyrki Pulliainen (nailor) * Date: 2013-02-23 15:50
Added documentation changes to the glob documentation too, not only docstring.
msg182793 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2013-02-23 18:58
New changeset 2b96dcdac419 by Petri Lehtinen in branch '2.7':
Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a dot
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2b96dcdac419

New changeset b4434cbca953 by Petri Lehtinen in branch '3.2':
Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a dot
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b4434cbca953

New changeset 3e8b29512b2e by Petri Lehtinen in branch '3.3':
Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a dot
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3e8b29512b2e

New changeset 3fd9970d9e65 by Petri Lehtinen in branch 'default':
Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a dot
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3fd9970d9e65
msg182794 - (view) Author: Petri Lehtinen (petri.lehtinen) * (Python committer) Date: 2013-02-23 18:59
Applied, thanks!
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:57:39adminsetgithub: 60899
2013-02-23 18:59:02petri.lehtinensetstatus: open -> closed

nosy: + petri.lehtinen
messages: + msg182794

resolution: fixed
stage: needs patch -> resolved
2013-02-23 18:58:19python-devsetnosy: + python-dev
messages: + msg182793
2013-02-23 15:50:45nailorsetfiles: + issue16695_2.patch

messages: + msg182753
2013-02-23 15:06:48nailorsetfiles: + issue16695.patch

nosy: + nailor
messages: + msg182749

keywords: + patch
2012-12-16 10:32:16hynekcreate