Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: > [fnmatch] explicitly disclaims the feature you request: "Be aware there is no > way to quote > meta-characters."
This reads like a warning to me, i.e. a potential future feature, not a design choice. > What you are asking for in something in between the unix language and re. If > one re > feature is added, why not another? When we use glob patterns in our shells, the shell language lets us escape what would otherwise be special characters. Python would be nicer to let us do the same. ---------- nosy: +eric.araujo _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13929> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
