Jonathan Epstein added the comment:
Sorry, this was dumb. Thanks for your patience.
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Eric V. Smith <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote:
>
> 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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