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 pathname
segments). Similarly, filenames starting with a period are
not special for this module, and are matched by the *
and
?
patterns.
- 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 comparison is performed. If you
require a case-sensitive comparison 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 comparison is case-sensitive.
See Also:
- Module glob:
- Unix shell-style path expansion.
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