New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: fnmatch.translate's docstraing says "There is no way to quote meta-characters.", but this is wrong. One can remove the special meaning of ``'?'``, ``'*'`` and ``'['`` by wrapping them between square brackets. Thus, ``'[?]'`` matches the literal character ``'?'``.
There are a lot of related issues: issue8402, issue13929, issue9358, issue738389, issue738361, issue1580472, issue5852. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: fnmatch_doc_escape.patch keywords: easy, patch messages: 172976 nosy: docs@python, serhiy.storchaka priority: high severity: normal status: open title: Document a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27581/fnmatch_doc_escape.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16240> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
