Summary

It would be nice if glob "/*/*" worked

Metadata

• Id: d7a47ce25d9102ab8e8a8059cd66da01a90ccd94
• Trac id: 1657
• Type: enhancement
• Reporter: evhan
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: new
• Component: core libraries
• Estimated difficulty: easy
• Resolution:
• Priority: not urgent at all
• Milestone: someday
• Version: 5.1.0
• Changetime: 2021-08-29 21:19:25 UTC
• Created: 2019-11-27 23:21:38 UTC
• Keywords: glob file

Description

Per an email from Matt Welland.

Changes and comments

[2021-08-29 21:19:25 UTC] wasamasa wrote:

I see two ways of going forward here:

- Use `glob(3)` - Make existing code smarter (Python's implementation covers this case and more)

The former seems somewhat appealing to me, but would change the behavior considerably.