I'm using a variadic Path argument:
@click.command()
@click.argument(
"paths", nargs=-1, type=click.Path(exists=True, dir_okay=False)
)
def whatever(paths)
...When I run myprogram.py *.txt, then on unix of course it works, because the shell expands on the glob. But on Windows, glob expansion is the responsibility of the program being invoked, and click doesn't appear to do it – even in a case like this where it has all the information needed to tell that glob expansion is appropriate. And click kind of has to do it, because click wants to validate the paths, and this has to happen after glob expansion – if I pass *.txt, it says Error: Invalid value for "paths": Path "*.txt" does not exist., and my code doesn't even get invoked, so I can't even fix up the globs myself, except by disabling all of click's validation and then doing it all myself.
I'm using a variadic
Pathargument:When I run
myprogram.py *.txt, then on unix of course it works, because the shell expands on the glob. But on Windows, glob expansion is the responsibility of the program being invoked, and click doesn't appear to do it – even in a case like this where it has all the information needed to tell that glob expansion is appropriate. And click kind of has to do it, because click wants to validate the paths, and this has to happen after glob expansion – if I pass*.txt, it saysError: Invalid value for "paths": Path "*.txt" does not exist., and my code doesn't even get invoked, so I can't even fix up the globs myself, except by disabling all of click's validation and then doing it all myself.