How to effectively find a substring with a mask in the string

Question

There is some semblance of the path to some object:

/ folder40053 / fileparent4413 / file /

and similar "folder40053" can be many. How to use regular expressions on python to more efficiently process queries for type searches

/ folder4 * / fileparent * / file

to get what is on the way in the request, while taking into account which side is the asterisk?

Do you have a list of strings and you need to select some of them by a pattern, for example, a regular schedule?
Yes, the problem is that at the input we get an expression of the type "word *", and depending on the location of the star itself, we should look for a match.
The expression /folder4*/fileparent*/file on a regular /folder4.*/fileparent.*/file would be: /folder4.*/fileparent.*/file
running along the line and replacing the asterisks with dots looks a bit like a crutch, I think
And what you have in question is a wildcard: docs.python.org/3.6/library/fnmatch.html

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