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:
| Pattern | Meaning | 
|---|---|
| * | 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.
| filename, pattern) | 
| filename, pattern) | 
| names, pattern) | 
[n for n in names if fnmatch(n, pattern)], but
implemented more efficiently.
New in version 2.2.
See Also: