Maybe add a compile function

[facelessuser]

Wcmatch caches patterns, but for instance, it doesn't cache pattern expansion. So if a pattern uses something like {1..100}, you'd get 100 patterns cached, so the expansion would still happen every time, but the parsing of each pattern would not. We currently do this because we don't want someone filling memory with massive cache entries. So, there is always a little overhead when calling a fnmatch.match or a glob.globmatch calls, more so if you are using braces or splitting with |

It may be nice though, to pre-compile a match that can be used over and over again. Once compiled, you could call it with very little overhead. Something like:

matcher = glob.compile('**/*.txt', flags=glob.GLOBSTAR)
matcher.match('folder.file.txt')