# 6.7 Standard Module `fnmatch`

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:

`*`
  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 filename segments).

`fnmatch` (filename, pattern)
  Test whether the filename string matches the pattern string, returning true or false. If the operating system is case-insensitive, then both parameters will be normalized to all lower- or upper-case before the comparision is performed. If you require a case-sensitive comparision regardless of whether that's standard for your operating system, use `fnmatchcase()` instead.

`fnmatchcase` ()
  Test whether filename matches pattern, returning true or false; the comparision is case-sensitive.

`translate` (pattern)
  Translate a shell pattern into a corresponding regular expression, returning a string describing the pattern. It does not compile the expression. Version note: in Python 1.4 and earlier, this function translated to `regex` (Emacs style) regular expressions; in 1.5 and later, it translates to `re` (Perl style) regular expressions.