fnmatch.translate()

fnmatch.translate(pattern)

Return the shell-style pattern converted to a regular expression.

Example:

>>> import fnmatch, re
>>>
>>> regex = fnmatch.translate('*.txt')
>>> regex
'.*\\.txt\\Z(?ms)'
>>> reobj = re.compile(regex)
>>> reobj.match('foobar.txt')
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 10), match='foobar.txt'>

Links:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/fnmatch.html#fnmatch.translate

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2016-10-07 17:33:16

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