[Python] Validate a globed-like path

I am writing a API for a program. The program has a native support of "globed" paths such as img-0*.png. I would like to know how to be sure that there is at least a file satisfying that pattern, a kind of is_globable(path) method.

path = 'img-0*.png'

if os.path.isfile(path):
pass
elif is_globable(path):
pass
else:
raise Exception(...)


Neither glob or pathlib provide such a functionality. The most related method I found is pathlib.PurePath.full_match but solves the opposite problem.

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