[New-bugs-announce] [issue33428] pathlib.Path.glob does not follow symlinks

[Brian Sheldon]

New submission from Brian Sheldon <brianmsheldon at gmail.com>:

Given a `pathlib.Path` that contains symlinked subfolders, `Path.glob` (and `.rglob`) do not follow symlinks.  This is not consistent with `glob.glob` which does.

For example given the following:
C:\Folder
C:\Folder\Subfolder -> D:\Subfolder
D:\Subfolder\File.txt

`pathlib.Path('C:/Folder').glob('**/*')` yields the following paths:
WindowsPath('C:/Folder/Subfolder')

`glob.glob('C:/Folder/**/*')` yields the following paths:
'C:/Folder\\Subfolder'
'C:/Folder\\Subfolder\\File.txt'

Notice how the contents of Subfolder are present in the `glob.glob` results but not for `Path.glob`.

I would expect `Path.glob` to be consistent with `glob.glob`.  This is not the only inconsistency (e.g. #22276, #31202) and perhaps `Path.glob` should be re-implemented using `glob.glob`.

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components: Library (Lib), Windows
messages: 316197
nosy: brianmsheldon, emilyemorehouse, paul.moore, pitrou, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pathlib.Path.glob does not follow symlinks
versions: Python 3.6

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