[issue31123] fnmatch does not follow Unix fnmatch functionality

R. David Murray added the comment: That seems like a reasonable use case, but is fnmatch what git is using for this? If so, what is the feature set required? In any case, the existing functionality must remain as is for backward compatibility reasons, so this would either be a new function o

[issue31123] fnmatch does not follow Unix fnmatch functionality

Varun Agrawal added the comment: Hi David, It seems you already took a look at the man page. There are some subtle differences such as being unable to match to a directory when the pattern ends with a forward slash. Overall, I'd like to see fnmatch be used to create a program that can perform

[issue31123] fnmatch does not follow Unix fnmatch functionality

R. David Murray added the comment: Looking at the fnmatch man page, it looks like there are option flags that some shells use that our fnmatch doesn't support. I'm not sure if supporting them is a good idea for us or not, but it is probably worth discussing. I suspect our fnmatch was impleme

[issue31123] fnmatch does not follow Unix fnmatch functionality

Changes by R. David Murray : -- type: behavior -> enhancement versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue31123] fnmatch does not follow Unix fnmatch functionality

R. David Murray added the comment: I don't believe there is an equivalent unix command. Are you referring to the fnmatch glibc function? Can you demonstrate the differences? I doubt we will change the functionality, but that would be the minimum starting point for a discussion. --

[issue31123] fnmatch does not follow Unix fnmatch functionality

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