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Author tim.peters
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Date 2003-05-17.23:43:12
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The heart of the problem seems to be the comment in 
fnmatch.py's translate() docstring:

    """Translate a shell PATTERN to a regular expression.

    There is no way to quote meta-characters.
    """
So it looks like an undocumented design limitation.
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