What behavior would you expect?

[Jason Friedman]

> If you're going to call listdir, you probably want to use fnmatch directly.
>
> fnmatch seems to be silent on non-existent directories:
python -c 'import fnmatch; fnmatch.fnmatch("/no/such/path", "*")'
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