In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro enlightened us with: >> The trouble with this is that, instead of offering extra functionality, >> it leaves the door open to making two stupid mistakes: >> >> 2) quoting of wildcards BEFORE quoting of non-wildcards > > Why is this a "stupid" mistake in your view? Please explain this in > detail, because I think it's a proper way of doing it.
Because quoting the wildcards introduces backslash specials before each wildcard. Quoting non-wildcards then causes those backslashes to be doubled, which means they escape themselves instead of the wildcards. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
