Dražen Lučanin added the comment: @Amaury Forgeot d'Arc - well, the '.' and '..' special files are detected directly in the listdir code, so I don't think there is any need to interleave this logic any deeper (such as os.path.ishidden).
@Antoine Pitrou - a one-liner, but it unnecessarily complicates the code - an optional argument is a much more elegant solution in my opinion. Regarding the *~ files - they are backup files, not hidden files (same as e.g. #somefile# files that Emacs generates). These are shown by ls, just hidden in some desktop environments. Another point is that dotfiles are really something of a special case (especially to programmers http://dotfiles.github.io/ ), because many programs store configurations and special data inside and it makes sense to allow users to omit these. I know I could use glob, I am currently doing that, but it seems like bad practice to switch to a different module that is also in the standard library, just it has the "dotfile detection magic" and os doesn't. The fact is that dotfiles do have special a meaning in Unix operating systems and the os module documentation states that some functionality is only tailored to Unix-based platforms (http://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html): An “Availability: Unix” note means that this function is commonly found on Unix systems. It does not make any claims about its existence on a specific operating system. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Changes by Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com>: > > > ---------- > resolution: -> rejected > stage: -> committed/rejected > status: open -> closed > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue18087> > _______________________________________ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18087> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
