From 52b7ee04720d7f574182d2b89701908bc2fc8116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Tarek=20Ziad=C3=A9?= <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 23:11:55 +0000
Subject: reapplied r74493 (after #6665 fix has been backported)

---
 Lib/distutils/filelist.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Lib/distutils/filelist.py')

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/filelist.py b/Lib/distutils/filelist.py
index 58a2bfb108..06a8da9a07 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/filelist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/filelist.py
@@ -312,7 +312,9 @@ def translate_pattern(pattern, anchor=1, prefix=None, is_regex=0):
         pattern_re = ''
 
     if prefix is not None:
-        prefix_re = (glob_to_re(prefix))[0:-1] # ditch trailing $
+        # ditch end of pattern character
+        empty_pattern = glob_to_re('')
+        prefix_re = (glob_to_re(prefix))[:-len(empty_pattern)]
         pattern_re = "^" + os.path.join(prefix_re, ".*" + pattern_re)
     else:                               # no prefix -- respect anchor flag
         if anchor:
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