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Deprecate glob.glob0() and glob.glob1() #117337
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Undocumented functions glob0() and glob1() were just helpers for glob.iglob(). They are not underscored because the glob module has __all__. They survived numerous refactorings only because they were used in the msilib module and some MSI related scripts. But the msilib module and these scripts have been removed.
glob1(root_dir, pattern) is equivalent to iglob1(os.path.join(glob.escape(root_dir), pattern)), but more restricted and slightly faster, because it does not need to escape root_dir and process the result.
Other alternative is iglob(pattern, root_dir=root_dir), which can even be faster, but it emits paths relative to root_dir. You can use (os.path.join(root_dir, p) for p in iglob(pattern, root_dir=root_dir)) if you need to append root_dir. Actually, creating an efficient replacement of glob1() was one of purposes of root_dir.
glob0(root_dir, name) just checks that os.path.join(root_dir, name) exists. I did not see its use in third-party code.
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barneygale commented on Mar 29, 2024
Two small corrections: the functions return results that are relative to dirname (i.e. they don't include dirname as a prefix), and the return value is a list (so they're more similar to glob() than iglob()).
Both functions can be approximated by glob.glob(pattern, root_dir=dirname) I believe, without the need to escape or join dirname.
pythonGH-117337: Deprecated `glob.glob0()` and `glob.glob1()`.
Merge branch 'main' into pythongh-117337-deprecate-glob0-glob1
GH-117337: Deprecate `glob.glob0()` and `glob.glob1()`. (#117371)
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