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glob.translate() rejects non-recursive pattern segments that include "**" #116377
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Bug report
Bug description:
glob.translate(recursive=True) (new in 3.13) rejects any pattern with a segment that includes **, unless ** is the entire segment. For example, translate('**a') is rejected but not translate('**')
Rejecting such segments is longstanding pathlib behaviour, but it has no precedent in the glob module -- glob.glob(recursive=True) happily accepts such segments.
>>> import glob
>>> glob.glob('**.py', recursive=True)
['blah.py']
>>> glob.translate('**.py', recursive=True)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
glob.translate('**.py', recursive=True)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/barney/projects/cpython/Lib/glob.py", line 304, in translate
raise ValueError("Invalid pattern: '**' can only be an entire path component")
ValueError: Invalid pattern: '**' can only be an entire path componenttranslate() should treat these segments similar to glob(), and leave the pattern validation stuff to pathlib.
CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
Linux
Activity
pythonGH-116377: Stop raising `ValueError` from `glob.translate()`.
terryjreedy commentedon Mar 5, 2024
Seems sensible to me.
pythonGH-116377: Stop raising `ValueError` from `glob.translate()`.
GH-116377: Stop raising `ValueError` from `glob.translate()`. (#116378)
pythonGH-116377: Stop raising `ValueError` from `glob.translate()`. (p…
pythonGH-116377: Stop raising `ValueError` from `glob.translate()`. (p…
pythonGH-116377: Stop raising `ValueError` from `glob.translate()`. (p…