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Nice Video! It feels like glob rules and regex is pretty much the same, but there are actually many differences. The strange thing is you don't notice them when working in the domain of directiories, so it feels very natural to use the glob rules. The whole video I was thinking "Wait what is different from regular expressions here?"
@@davidlioner4332 while that is true. Python doesn't really have the tradition concept of private methods. Dunder methods are the closest to it. If it was truly private, the call wouldn't even work. The point still stands.
I’ve transitioned to only using Path.glob() since often I need to import Path anyway, and now I need 1 fewer import. I basically never import glob anymore
Yes! I just transitioned to pathlib this week after resisting forever. What sold me was using the division operator “/“ instead of os.path.join all the time. Now I realize that I often don’t need os, sys, and glob imports.
Test is important but it can be misleading. It's good to check the documentation always! The second line docs of "glob.glob(pathname, *, root_dir=None, dir_fd=None, recursive=False, include_hidden=False)" contains the answer. Typing the answer was longer than googling the docs and checking the possible path types... :( It is your turn, find the docs instead of asking in comment! ;)
I have been using glob for a long time, but I only knew the * notation, so really insightful video as always! I do have to change a lot of my code now tho :/
It works very well for current disc directory,but when I try different disc and capital letters folder it gives me this error: root_dir='D:\MY DOCUMENTS\NIZAR', ^ SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 15-16: malformed \N character escape
