test_glob fails under OS X:

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FAIL: test_glob (test.test_pathlib.PosixPathTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.murray-snowleopard/build/Lib/test/test_pathlib.py", line 1615, in test_glob
    self.assertEqual(set(p.glob("FILEa")), set())
AssertionError: Items in the first set but not the second:
PosixPath('/Users/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.murray-snowleopard/build/build/test_python_39872/@test_39872_tmp/FILEa')


In that test, "FILEa" doesn't exist but "fileA" does.  glob() uses a shortcut when there's no wildcard: it calls .exists() instead of checking the name is inside listdir().  Unfortunately here, the filesystem is insensitive and Path("FILEa").exists() will return True.

However, p.glob("FILEa*") will really return nothing (at least I think so, I don't have a Mac to test), so this is a bit inconsistent.


If we decide the inconsistency is ok, I must then change the test to not exercise it :)

New changeset cd09766bb18f by Brett Cannon in branch 'default':
Issue #19718: Add a case-insensitive FS check to test.support to use
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cd09766bb18f

FWIW, it looks like Path.glob() is behaving the same as the default shell (bash 3.2 on OS X 10.6.8):

Python 3.4.0a4+ (default:cce14bc9b675, Nov 22 2013, 13:01:47)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pathlib
>>> p = pathlib.Path(".")
>>> list(p.glob("fileA"))
[PosixPath('fileA')]
>>> list(p.glob("file*"))
[PosixPath('fileA')]
>>> list(p.glob("fileA*"))
[PosixPath('fileA')]
>>> list(p.glob("FILE*"))
[]
>>> list(p.glob("FILEa*"))
[]
>>> list(p.glob("FILEa"))
[PosixPath('FILEa')]
>>> list(p.glob("FILEA"))
[PosixPath('FILEA')]

$ ls .
fileA
$ ls fileA
fileA
$ ls file*
fileA
$ ls fileA*
fileA
$ ls FILE*
ls: FILE*: No such file or directory
$ ls FILEa*
ls: FILEa*: No such file or directory
$ ls FILEa
FILEa
$ ls FILEA
FILEA

New changeset 4734f6e2fd2f by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'default':
Issue #19718: add one more globbing test under POSIX
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4734f6e2fd2f

> FWIW, it looks like Path.glob() is behaving the same as the default 
> shell (bash 3.2 on OS X 10.6.8)

Thanks, we're in good company then (or at least we're not alone :-)).

Do you think I should fix this issue as fixed now?

test_pathlib now passes.  I'd say it's fixed until someone claims otherwise.

Ok, thanks (and thanks Brett for writing and testing the patch)!