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Fixed minor nits, added index entries to make these easier to find for people

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not familiar with Unix terminology.
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Fred Drake 1999-03-16 16:40:01 +00:00
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\section{\module{glob} ---
\UNIX{} shell style pathname pattern expansion.}
\declaremodule{standard}{glob}
\UNIX{} style pathname pattern expansion}
\declaremodule{standard}{glob}
\modulesynopsis{\UNIX{} shell style pathname pattern expansion.}
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functions in concert, and not by actually invoking a subshell. (For
tilde and shell variable expansion, use \function{os.path.expanduser()}
and \function{os.path.expandvars()}.)
\index{filenames!pathname expansion}
\begin{funcdesc}{glob}{pathname}
Returns a possibly-empty list of path names that match \var{pathname},
which must be a string containing a path specification.
\var{pathname} can be either absolute (like
\file{/usr/src/Python-1.5/Makefile}) or relative (like
\file{../../Tools/*.gif}), and can contain shell-style wildcards.
\file{../../Tools/*/*.gif}), and can contain shell-style wildcards.
\end{funcdesc}
For example, consider a directory containing only the following files:
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>>> glob.glob('?.gif')
['1.gif']
\end{verbatim}
\begin{seealso}
\seemodule{fnmatch}{Shell-style filename (not path) expansion}
\end{seealso}