This module provides support for Unix shell-style wildcards, which
are not the same as 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 (filename, pattern)
-
Test whether filename matches pattern, returning true or
false; the comparision is case-sensitive.
See Also:
glob (Shell-style path expansion)
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