Create regex from glob expression

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no need for incomplete or unreliable hacks. there’s a function included with python for this

>>> import fnmatch
>>> fnmatch.translate( '*.foo' )
'.*\\.foo$'
>>> fnmatch.translate( '[a-z]*.txt' )
'[a-z].*\\.txt$'

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