Wildcard Match provides an enhanced fnmatch, glob, and pathlib library in
order to provide file matching and globbing that more closely follows the
features found in Bash. In some ways these libraries are similar to Python's
builtin libraries as they provide a similar interface to match, filter, and
glob the file system. But they also include a number of features found in
Bash's globbing such as backslash escaping, brace expansion, extended glob
pattern groups, etc. They also add a number of new useful functions as well,
such as globmatch which functions like fnmatch, but for paths.
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Wildcard Match also adds a file search utility called wcmatch that is built on
top of fnmatch and globmatch. It was originally written for Rummage, but split
out into this project to be used by other projects that may find its approach
useful.
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Bash is used as a guide when making decisions on behavior for fnmatch and
glob. Behavior may differ from Bash version to Bash version, but an attempt is
made to keep Wildcard Match up with the latest relevant changes.
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This package installs the library for Python 3.
