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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Glob behavior is inconsistent across libraries","articleBody":"\u003e the [Python] docs for `pathlib.glob` are unclear on the meaning of `**`\r\n\r\nYou are right, and it gets even more confusing:\r\n\r\n* `glob.glob('**')` returns dirs and files, non-recursively, not including `.`\r\n* `glob.glob('**', recursive=True)` returns dirs and files, recursively, not including `.`\r\n* `list(pathlib.Path('.').glob('**'))` returns only dirs, recursively, and also includes `.`\r\n\r\nI think there should be a Python upstream issue to document all of that, including the differences between `glob` and `pathlib`.\r\n\r\nThen `zipp` could implement what's documented for `pathlib`.\r\n\r\n## Repro\r\n\r\nPython 3.10.11\r\n\r\n```sh\r\nmkdir -p dir/subdir ; touch toplevel.txt dir/indir.txt\r\n```\r\n\r\ncreates:\r\n\r\n```\r\ntoplevel.txt\r\ndir/\r\n  indir.txt\r\n  subdir/\r\n```\r\n\r\n```python\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e import glob, pathlib\r\n\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e glob.glob('**')\r\n['dir', 'toplevel.txt']\r\n\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e glob.glob('**', recursive=True)\r\n['dir', 'dir/subdir', 'dir/indir.txt', 'toplevel.txt']\r\n\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e list(pathlib.Path('.').glob('**'))\r\n[PosixPath('.'), PosixPath('dir'), PosixPath('dir/subdir')]\r\n```\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @nh2 in https://github.com/jaraco/zipp/issues/102#issuecomment-1634883323_\r\n\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-112365\n* gh-115056\n* gh-116319\n* gh-116518\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jaraco","@type":"Person","name":"jaraco"},"datePublished":"2023-07-14T16:00:34.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":18},"url":"https://github.com/106747/cpython/issues/106747"}