The archetypal use of wildcards is for matching against the files in a directory, and making a list of all the matches. This is called globbing.
You could do this using fnmatch , by reading the directory entries one by one and testing each one with fnmatch . But that would be slow (and complex, since you would have to handle subdirectories by hand).
The library provides a function glob to make this particular use of wildcards convenient. glob and the other symbols in this section are declared in `glob.h'.
| Calling Glob | Basic use of glob . |
| Flags for Globbing | Flags that enable various options in glob . |