Hello Sergey, * Sergey Poznyakoff meant to write on Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:37:40PM CEST: > > This would seem to still mis-characterizes patterns such as 'foo]'. > > Yes, of course. But this function is by no means thought to correctly > catch all possible variations of wildcard patterns (one would have to > duplicate fnmatch for that). Its purpose is to give a rough estimate > on whether a given pattern is a fixed literal or a wildcard string. > It may, in some cases, incorrectly recognize the former to be the > latter, but never vice-versa.
Sure. But if there is a chance to improve the estimate by a trivial change, without any downsides, why not go for it? Anyway, I agree that this is a very minor detail, probably not worth the electrons I'm writing this with, and I'm not going to argue further. Cheers, Ralf
