7.0

7.0

Check out Release Notes to learn more about upgrading to 7.0.

• NEW: Recognize extended UNC paths.
• NEW: Allow escaping any character in Windows drives for better compatibility with SPLIT and BRACE which
  requires a user to escape {, } and | to avoid expanding a pattern.
• NEW: raw_escape now accepts the raw_chars parameter so that translation of Python character back references can be disabled.
• NEW: Search functions that use scandir will not return . and .. for wildcard patterns that require iterating over a directory to match the files against a pattern. This matches Python's glob and is most likely what most users expect. Pattern matching logic is unaffected.
• NEW: Add SCANDOTDIR flag to enable previous behavior of injecting . and .. in scandir results.
  SCANDOTDIR has no affect on match functions such as globmatch which don't use directory scanning.
• NEW: Flag NODOTDIR has been added to disable patterns such as .* from matching . and ... When enabled, matching logic is changed to require a literal pattern of . and .. to match the special directories . and ... This is more Zsh like.
• FIX: Negative extended glob patterns (!(...)) incorrectly allowed for hidden files to be returned when one of the subpatterns started with ., even when DOTMATCH/DOTGLOB was not enabled.
• FIX: When NOUNIQUE is enabled and pathlib is being used, you could still get non-unique results across
  patterns expanded with BRACE or SPLIT (or even by simply providing a list of patterns). Ensure that unique results are only returned when NOUNIQUE is not enabled.
• FIX: Fix corner cases with escape and raw_escape with back slashes.
• FIX: Ensure that globmatch does not match test// with pattern test/*.
• FIX: pathlib.match should not evaluate symlinks that are on the left hand side of what was matched.