On Thu, Dec 8, 2016, at 20:38, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:37:27 -0500, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> > declaimed the following: > >There are other issues, like needing a way to do Windows' version of > >wildcard parsing with all its quirks, or at least some of its quirks - > >"*.*" for all files and "*." for files not containing any dot being the > >most commonly used in the real world. > > > In the original 8.3 scheme -- no files "contained" a dot
Yes, but they do now, and the compatibility quirks persist. At some point in the process *?. are translated to other reserved characters <>" in order to allow the same native functions to perform both the 'quirks mode' and more rigorous logic. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
