From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 02:23:21 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: whatsnew: glob.escape.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~114
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1cd0e85d0176be2ad39d4f215eec0540351423e8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

whatsnew: glob.escape.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 54af9d4b10bd..df15c5ab4c38 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -793,6 +793,14 @@ dictionaries containing the collections statistics since interpreter startup.
 (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16351`.)
 
 
+glob
+----
+
+A new function :func:`~glob.escape` provides a way to escape special characters
+in a filename so that they do not become part of the globbing expansion but are
+instead matched literally.  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`8402`.)
+
+
 hashlib
 -------