fnmatch --- Unix filename pattern matching

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). synopsis: Unix shell style filename pattern matching. Source code: Lib/fnmatch.py 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 single: (asterisk); in glob-style wildcards single: ? (question mark); in glob-style wildcards single: [] (square brackets); in glob-style wildcards single: ! (exclamation); in glob-style wildcards single: - (minus); in glob-style wildcards For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets. For example, '[?]' matches the character '?'. Note that the filename separator ('/' on Unix) is not special to this module. See module glob for pathname expansion (glob uses .filter to match pathname segments). Similarly, filenames starting with a period are not special for this module, and are matched by the and ? patterns. Unless stated otherwise, "filename string" and "pattern string" either refer to str or ISO-8859-1 encoded bytes objects. Note that the functions documented below do not allow to mix a !bytes pattern with a !str filename, and vice-versa. Finally, note that functools.lru_cache with a maxsize of 32768 is used to cache the (typed) compiled regex patterns in the following functions: fnmatch, fnmatchcase, .filter, .filterfalse. Test whether the filename string name matches the pattern string pat, returning True or False. Both parameters are case-normalized using os.path.normcase. fnmatchcase can be used to perform a case-sensitive comparison, regardless of whether that's standard for the operating system. This example will print all file names in the current directory with the extension .txt Test whether the filename string name matches the pattern string pat, returning True or False; the comparison is case-sensitive and does not apply os.path.normcase. Construct a list from those elements of the iterable of filename strings names that match the pattern string pat. It is the same as [n for n in names if fnmatch(n, pat)], but implemented more efficiently. Construct a list from those elements of the iterable of filename strings names that do not match the pattern string pat. It is the same as [n for n in names if not fnmatch(n, pat)], but implemented more efficiently. … Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.