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## NAME
    fnmatch - Filename matching with shell patterns.

## MODULE REFERENCE
    <https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/fnmatch.html>

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## DESCRIPTION
### fnmatch
### fnmatchcase

    The functions operate by translating the pattern into a regular
    expression.  They cache the compiled regular expressions for speed.

    The function translate(PATTERN) returns a regular expression
    corresponding to PATTERN.  (It does not compile it.)

## FUNCTIONS
### filter
        Construct a list from those elements of the iterable NAMES that match PAT.

### fnmatch
        Test whether FILENAME matches PATTERN.

        Patterns are Unix shell style:

        *       matches everything
        ?       matches any single character
        [seq]   matches any character in seq
        [!seq]  matches any char not in seq

        An initial period in FILENAME is not special.
        Both FILENAME and PATTERN are first case-normalized
        if the operating system requires it.
        If you don't want this, use fnmatchcase(FILENAME, PATTERN).

### fnmatchcase
        Test whether FILENAME matches PATTERN, including case.

        This is a version of fnmatch() which doesn't case-normalize
        its arguments.

### translate
        Translate a shell PATTERN to a regular expression.

        There is no way to quote meta-characters.

## DATA
    __all__ = ['filter', 'fnmatch', 'fnmatchcase', 'translate']

## FILE
    /usr/lib/python3.10/fnmatch.py