use fnmatch for reference globing rather then regex - regex overly complicates simple cases and wasnt being taken advantage of.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/release/scripts/startup/bl_operators/wm.py b/release/scripts/startup/bl_operators/wm.py
index 2d8d1a59693..4d95c2d5d03 100644
--- a/release/scripts/startup/bl_operators/wm.py
+++ b/release/scripts/startup/bl_operators/wm.py
@@ -845,11 +845,11 @@ class WM_OT_doc_view_manual(Operator):
 
     @staticmethod
     def _find_reference(rna_id, url_mapping):
-        print("online manual check for: '%s' ... " % rna_id, end="")
-        from re import match
+        print("online manual check for: '%s'... " % rna_id)
+        from fnmatch import fnmatch
         for pattern, url_suffix in url_mapping:
-            if match(pattern, rna_id):
-                print("match found:", pattern)
+            if fnmatch(rna_id, pattern):
+                print("            match found: '%s' --> '%s'" % (pattern, url_suffix))
                 return url_suffix
         print("match not found")
         return None