whatsnew: glob.escape.

c1e7fd6c · R David Murray · db68c3a5 · c1e7fd6c
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@@ -793,6 +793,14 @@ dictionaries containing the collections statistics since interpreter startup.
 (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16351`.)


+glob
+----
+
+A new function :func:`~glob.escape` provides a way to escape special characters
+in a filename so that they do not become part of the globbing expansion but are
+instead matched literally.  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`8402`.)
+
+
 hashlib
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