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Python Development Techdegree Student 22,377 PointsQuestion about autoloader function
I was curious as to why we used
__DIR__ . '/*'
instead of
__DIR__ . '/classes'
since we were only looking for classes anyway.
1 Answer
Brandyn Lordi
17,778 PointsSo we can check every file inside every folder. If we want to use a different file down the road that might not be inside the classes folder, this function will still work.
The function is looping through each directory that's inside the current directory- in search of matching files.