Hello, I would like fnmatch.fnmatch to have a mode where: ** matches any files and zero or more directories and subdirectories (i.e. the current behaviour of *) * matches in one path level/only to the next path separator This is essentially achievable in glob.glob from version 3.5 (with recursive=True), but glob is not suitable for my use case, as I need to work with strings and not files. I would like to gauge whether adding such behaviour behind an optional argument similar to glob's "recursive" (e.g. "glob_asterisks=False") is likely to be accepted into the standard library, before I start working on a patch. I have seen people raise the question of how to achieve this in a number of places. Somebody has also forked the Python 2 standard library fnmatch module to implement this as a standalone library: https://github.com/kianxineki/python-wildcard (which shows that the actual changes are likely to be pretty small). This request is also discussed in the following bug: http://bugs.python.org/issue28718 Not directly on point, but some may find the discussion interesting: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18341848/fnmatch-and-recursive-path-match... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27726545/python-glob-but-against-a-list-o... I would appreciate any thoughts. Kind regards, Aaron