[Python] Wildcard * not interpreted by python argparse on Windows [closed]

I'm trying to write a script that could take all files in a directory and allowing the user to use the * to refer to multiple files.

This is the line in which I set up the parser to receive the input files:

parser.add_argument('-f', '--files', help='The files to compare.', required=True, nargs='+')


This is the line of the error

Invalid argument: '.\\rmsd\\*.xyz'


This is the code I run to execute the script

python .\rsmd.py -r .\rmsd\1.xyz -f .\rmsd\*.xyz


My purpose is to let the user use the script in Windows and in Linux.

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