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The regex substitution in distutils.filelist.glob_to_re
fails to do the right thing in a couple cases:
1. it fails to translate a dot after an even number of
backslashes.
2. it fails to translate multiple dots in row.
For example:
foo\\* -> foo\\.*$
foo???? -> foo[^/].[^/].$
The following substitution fixes these problems:
 re.sub(r'((?<!\\)(\\\\)*)\.', r'1円[^/]', re_pattern)
This allows the dot to be preceeded by an even number
of backslashes (including 0) and it utilizes a negative
look-behind assertion so that adjacent dots are handled.
This problem is present in the svn code, and appears to
be identical in versions 2.4.2 and 2.3.5 (the only two
versions I had around to check).