glob & fnmatch unable to match dirs/files containing [ ] ?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Robert:
  [...]
> quoting attempts don't work:
> 
> >>> glob.glob(  r'testsync\[2\]/*'  )            # or  'testsync\\[2\\]/*'
> []

You can quote the '[' by putting it in a character class of its
own:
	>>> glob.glob('testsync[[]2]')
	['testsync[2]']

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