`!fnmatch` --- Unix filename pattern matching

fnmatch(name, pat)

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:

import fnmatch
import os

for file in os.listdir('.'):
    if fnmatch.fnmatch(file, '*.txt'):
        print(file)

fnmatchcase(name, pat)

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.

filter(names, pat)

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.

filterfalse(names, pat)

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.

translate(pat)

Return the shell-style pattern pat converted to a regular expression for using with re.prefixmatch. The pattern is expected to be a str.

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'>