Stop argparse from globbing filepath

Question

I am using python argparse with the following argument definition:

parser.add_argument(\'path\', nargs=1, help=\'File path to process\')

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Answer 1

The shell is expanding the wildcard argument before argparse gets a chance to see it. Put quotes around the wildcard argument to prevent the shell from expanding it.

You could later perform the wildcard expansion with glob.glob.