Does Python has a symbol represents anything like star symbol * in Linux bash?

Question

I want to use python to find out two folder names match similar prefix or not, folders e.g.

folder
folder_v2
folder_v3

I know there should be many ways to do this, like split the folder names into 2 parts, and only compare the first part.

But is there an elegant way to do this? And it reminds me symbol * in the Linux bash (in bash, folder* reprent all folders and files with prefix folder) ? I hope something similar struture with:

if ('folder'== 'folder*'):
  print('this is a good match')

AKX · Answer

Given a variable name, either

name.startswith("folder") if all you need to know is if name starts with folder
or fnmatch.fnmatch(name, "folder*") if you want to use a shell-style wildcard
or a regexp if you need more power

If you want to find all files in a directory that match a given wildcard pattern, glob.glob() is your friend.

Does Python has a symbol represents anything like star symbol * in Linux bash?

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