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Fri Dec 5 23:18:47 CET 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-December/083967.html

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Glob was just an example. Many use cases for directory traversal
>> couldn't care less if they see *all* files.
>>
> Okay.  Makes it harder to prove correct or not if I don't know what the
> use case is :-)  I can't think of a single use case off-hand.
> 
> Even your example of a ??.txt file making retrieval of *.py files fail
> is a little broken.  If there was a ??.py file that was undecodable the
> program would most likely want to know that file existed.

Why? Most programs won't be able to do anything with it. And if the
program *can* do something with it... that's what the bytes version of
the APIs are for.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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