Spread a statement over various lines

[Manfred Lotz]

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:36:04 +0200
Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> Manfred Lotz wrote:
> 
> >> Not related to your question, but:
> >> You seem to try to convert a Windows wildcard pattern to a regex
> >> pattern.  
> > 
> > No, I'm on Linux.
> > 
> > Shortly, after I had posted the question I discovered fnmatch() in
> > the standard library, and I changed my code accordingly.  
> 
> I would have pointed to fnmatch, but I didn't recognize the '%' that
> you used instead of the usual '?', and fnmatch doesn't either, I
> think.
> 
> Where does '%' come from?
> 

'%' was a mistake as I had replied myself to my initial question.