> I'm tryin compare a string with a value with style of
pattern-matching.
>
> string = 'i686'
>
> if string == glob.glob(i?86):
Use regular expressions and turn it around:
import re
s = 'i686'
ex = re.compile('i?86')
if ex.match(s): print 'they match!'
Is that what you mean?
Alan G.