Copy only hidden files and folders with rsync

[Cannondale]

New to Python but not to coding.

I would like to copy only the hidden files and folders in my home directory with rsync from a Python script.
The issues is that using a .* after the source directory name (/home/jer/.*) causes an rsync error when executed from Python.
However, in the Linux terminal, this statement works fine:

rsync -an /home/jer/.*/ /Temp

After some research, I tried the following syntax:

rsync -an /home/jer/.[^.]*/ /Temp

This also causes an rsync error but in the Linux terminal also works fine.

Below is my relevant code snippet:

bk_args = "-avn"
bk_src_dir = "/home/jer/.[^.]*/"
bk_tar_dir = "/mnt/md0"
bk_options = ['--itemize-changes=%i%f', '--info=stats2', '--progress']

try:
    subprocess.run(["rsync", bk_args, *bk_options, bk_src_dir, bk_tar_dir])

This causes the following rsync error:

sending incremental file list
rsync: [sender] change_dir "/home/jer/.[^.]*" failed: No such file or directory (2)

I have tried various combinations of escaping ".*" without success so I thought it was time to come to the mountain for some ideas!

[DeaD_EyE]

The * in your shell is replaced with filenames, and then your shell starts the program with the arguments. You have to do this step manually.

from pathlib import Path

bk_args = "-avn"


# Path("somepath").glob(".*") return a Generator
# the elements are Path objects
# they need to be str to use them with subprocess as arguments
bk_src_files = list(map(str, Path("/home/jer").glob(".*")))

bk_tar_dir = "/mnt/md0"
bk_options = ['--itemize-changes=%i%f', '--info=stats2', '--progress']

print(bk_options)

subprocess.run(["rsync", bk_args, *bk_options, *bk_src_dir, bk_tar_dir])

[Cannondale]

The * in your shell is replaced with filenames, and then your shell starts the program with the arguments. You have to do this step manually.

from pathlib import Path

bk_args = "-avn"


# Path("somepath").glob(".*") return a Generator
# the elements are Path objects
# they need to be str to use them with subprocess as arguments
bk_src_files = list(map(str, Path("/home/jer").glob(".*")))

bk_tar_dir = "/mnt/md0"
bk_options = ['--itemize-changes=%i%f', '--info=stats2', '--progress']

print(bk_options)

subprocess.run(["rsync", bk_args, *bk_options, *bk_src_dir, bk_tar_dir])

Brilliant solution DeaD_EyE! This thorn in my side finally resolved with your help!

For completeness, I wanted to provide another solution for anyone that may stumble onto this thread in the future.
The following code will also work but involves explicitly calling the shell in the subprocess.
Note: bk_src_dir = "/home/jer/.*/"

bk_str = "rsync " +  bk_args + " " + bk_options + " " + bk_src_dir + " " + bk_tar_dir
subprocess.run(bk_str, shell=True) 

I did not want to use the explicit call to the shell in the subprocess so did not implement this solution.

Thanks again!