Python glob but against a list of strings rather than the filesystem

Question

I want to be able to match a pattern in glob format to a list of strings, rather than to actual files in the filesystem. Is there any way to do this, or convert a glob

Answer 1

On Python 3.4+ you can just use PurePath.match.

pathlib.PurePath(path_string).match(pattern)

On Python 3.3 or earlier (including 2.x), get pathlib from PyPI.

Note that to get platform-independent results (which will depend on why you're running this) you'd want to explicitly state PurePosixPath or PureWindowsPath.