This module provides support for Unix shell-style wildcards, which are
not the same as Python's regular expressions (which are
documented in the re
module). The special characters used
in shell-style wildcards are:
*
- matches everything
?
- matches any single character
[
seq]
- matches any character in seq
[!
seq]
- matches any character not in seq
Note that the filename separator ('/'
on Unix) is not
special to this module. See module glob
for pathname expansion
(glob
uses fnmatch
to match filename segments).
- fnmatch (filename, pattern)
-
Test whether the filename string matches the pattern
string, returning true or false. If the operating system is
case-insensitive, then both parameters will be normalized to all
lower- or upper-case before the comparision is performed. If you
require a case-sensitive comparision regardless of whether that's
standard for your operating system, use
fnmatchcase()
instead.
- fnmatchcase ()
-
Test whether filename matches pattern, returning true or
false; the comparision is case-sensitive.
- translate (pattern)
-
Translate a shell pattern into a corresponding regular expression,
returning a string describing the pattern. It does not compile the
expression.
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