[issue28718] '*' matches entire path in fnmatch

Aaron Whitehouse added the comment: Posted to the [Python-ideas] mailing list, as it is proposing a change to a standard library: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2017-February/044880.html Nobody has responded so far, however. I take this as at least no vehement objection to the

[issue28718] '*' matches entire path in fnmatch

Aaron Whitehouse added the comment: Note that somebody has forked the standard library to implement this: https://github.com/kianxineki/python-wildcard This shows that the actual changes would be pretty small (though pywildcard is based on 2.x code and does not handle the cross-platform slashes