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+:mod:`fnmatch` --- Unix filename pattern matching
+=================================================
+
+.. module:: fnmatch
+   :synopsis: Unix shell style filename pattern matching.
+
+
+.. index:: single: filenames; wildcard expansion
+
+.. index:: module: re
+
+This module provides support for Unix shell-style wildcards, which are *not* the
+same as regular expressions (which are documented in the :mod:`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* |
++------------+------------------------------------+
+
+.. index:: module: glob
+
+Note that the filename separator (``'/'`` on Unix) is *not* special to this
+module.  See module :mod:`glob` for pathname expansion (:mod:`glob` uses
+:func:`fnmatch` to match pathname segments).  Similarly, filenames starting with
+a period are not special for this module, and are matched by the ``*`` and ``?``
+patterns.
+
+
+.. function:: 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 comparison is
+   performed.  If you require a case-sensitive comparison regardless of whether
+   that's standard for your operating system, use :func:`fnmatchcase` instead.
+
+   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
+
+
+.. function:: fnmatchcase(filename, pattern)
+
+   Test whether *filename* matches *pattern*, returning true or false; the
+   comparison is case-sensitive.
+
+
+.. function:: filter(names, pattern)
+
+   Return the subset of the list of *names* that match *pattern*. It is the same as
+   ``[n for n in names if fnmatch(n, pattern)]``, but implemented more efficiently.
+
+   .. versionadded:: 2.2
+
+
+.. function:: translate(pattern)
+
+   Return the shell-style *pattern* converted to a regular expression.
+
+   Example::
+
+      >>> import fnmatch, re
+      >>>
+      >>> regex = fnmatch.translate('*.txt')
+      >>> regex
+      '.*\\.txt$'
+      >>> reobj = re.compile(regex)
+      >>> print reobj.match('foobar.txt')
+      <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x...>
+
+
+.. seealso::
+
+   Module :mod:`glob`
+      Unix shell-style path expansion.
+