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Author eric.smith
Recipients eric.smith, george.hu, l0nwlf
Date 2010-04-15.01:27:56
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The documentation for fnmatch.translate, which is what ultimately gets called, says:
   There is no way to quote meta-characters.
Sorry.

If you want to see this changed, you could open a feature request. If you have a patch, that would help!

You probably want to research what the Unix shells use for escaping globs.
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