Commit 1df43d33 authored by Ezio Melotti's avatar Ezio Melotti

#16420: document a way to escape metacharacters in glob/fnmatch.

parent 820f2bda
......@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ special characters used in shell-style wildcards are:
| ``[!seq]`` | matches any character not in *seq* |
+------------+------------------------------------+
For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets.
For example, ``'[?]'`` matches the character ``'?'``.
.. index:: module: glob
Note that the filename separator (``'/'`` on Unix) is *not* special to this
......@@ -76,8 +79,6 @@ patterns.
Return the shell-style *pattern* converted to a regular expression.
Be aware there is no way to quote meta-characters.
Example:
>>> import fnmatch, re
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......@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ matched. This is done by using the :func:`os.listdir` and
subshell. (For tilde and shell variable expansion, use
:func:`os.path.expanduser` and :func:`os.path.expandvars`.)
For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets.
For example, ``'[?]'`` matches the character ``'?'``.
.. function:: glob(pathname)
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