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fnmatch

function (source)
  • translate(pat)
Translate a shell PATTERN to a regular expression.

There is no way to quote meta-characters.
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1 Example
>>> import fnmatch, re
>>>
>>> regex = fnmatch.translate('*.txt')
>>> regex
'(?s:.*\\.txt)\\z'
>>> reobj = re.compile(regex)
>>> reobj.prefixmatch('foobar.txt')
<re.Match object; span=(0, 10), match='foobar.txt'>
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