#16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes

Fixes handling of leading dots.

Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/glob.py b/Lib/glob.py
index 33ee43bab1..c9f811720a 100644
--- a/Lib/glob.py
+++ b/Lib/glob.py
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ def glob1(dirname, pattern):
         names = os.listdir(dirname)
     except OSError:
         return []
-    if pattern[0] != '.':
-        names = [x for x in names if x[0] != '.']
+    if not _ishidden(pattern):
+        names = [x for x in names if not _ishidden(x)]
     return fnmatch.filter(names, pattern)
 
 def glob0(dirname, basename):
@@ -82,3 +82,6 @@ def has_magic(s):
     else:
         match = magic_check.search(s)
     return match is not None
+
+def _ishidden(path):
+    return path[0] in ('.', b'.'[0])