[New-bugs-announce] [issue31123] fnmatch does not follow Unix fnmatch functionality

[Varun Agrawal]

New submission from Varun Agrawal:

Currently, the fnmatch module in Python does not operate like the Unix equivalent command. This is especially the case with patterns such as `dir/` which does not match directory path returned by `os` (which would be `dir`) and neither does the pattern match the underlying files and sub-directories. Adding these functionalities so that fnmatch matches it's Unix equivalent would make it much more powerful to use.

Glob is not useful since glob is a special case that matches only with the current directory paths rather than the a general purpose filename pattern matcher.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 299763
nosy: Varun Agrawal
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: fnmatch does not follow Unix fnmatch functionality
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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