[issue20810] literal re fails to match

[Eric V. Smith]

Eric V. Smith added the comment:

re.match requires a match at the beginning of the string. From the docs: "If zero or more characters at the beginning of string match the regular expression pattern, ...".

If you switch to re.search, they'll all match:

>>> re.search('larvalolympiad',mainProjectsPath)
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xffed54f0>

>>> re.match('.*larvalolympiad.*',mainProjectsPath)
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xffed5870>

>>> re.search('/larvalolympiad/',mainProjectsPath)
<_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xffed54f0>

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nosy: +eric.smith

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