Globbing with python rpm module?

Question

The following code uses the rpm module to query the version of an installed package. What I would like to do is to query a set of packages specified by a glob, for example searching for "python*" rather than "python". Is this possible using the rpm module?

  1 #!/usr/bin/python
  2 
  3 import rpm
  4 
  5 ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
  6 mi = ts.dbMatch("name", "python")
  7 for i in mi:
  8     print i['name'], i['version']

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Answer 1

import rpm
ts = rpm.TransactionSet()
mi = ts.dbMatch()
mi.pattern('name', rpm.RPMMIRE_GLOB, 'py*' )
for h in mi:
   # Do something with the header...