diff --git a/Doc/library/glob.rst b/Doc/library/glob.rst --- a/Doc/library/glob.rst +++ b/Doc/library/glob.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ according to the rules used by the Unix shell, although results are returned in arbitrary order. No tilde expansion is done, but ``*``, ``?``, and character ranges expressed with ``[]`` will be correctly matched. This is done by using -the :func:`os.listdir` and :func:`fnmatch.fnmatch` functions in concert, and +the :func:`os.scandir` and :func:`fnmatch.fnmatch` functions in concert, and not by actually invoking a subshell. Note that unlike :func:`fnmatch.fnmatch`, :mod:`glob` treats filenames beginning with a dot (``.``) as special cases. (For tilde and shell variable expansion, use :func:`os.path.expanduser` and