Wild Card String Comparison

[Sean DiZazzo]

On Aug 27, 8:49 pm, "W. eWatson" <notval... at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string. For
> example, I'd like to find "v*.dat" in a string called bingo. v must be
> matched against only the first character in bingo, and not simply found
> somewhere in bingo, as might be the case for "*v*.dat".
> --
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Check:

http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fnmatch.html

~Sean