Proposed opinionated warning against re.match

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A plugin for Flake8 finding likely bugs and design problems in your program. Contains warnings that don't belong in pyflakes and pycodestyle.

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Proposed opinionated warning against re.match #132

Open catherinedevlin opened 4 years ago

catherinedevlin commented 4 years ago

Technically, using re.match is valid. Realistically, the author probably meant .search and is going to lose a ton of time trying to figure out why her regex isn't working.

I'm speaking purely in compassion toward more junior developers; I would obviously never make such an elementary mistake myself. https://twitter.com/catherinedevlin/status/1257507010041520139

If you think you're likely to accept it, I'd be interested in authoring such a warning.

cooperlees commented 4 years ago

I'd like another maintainer to comment, but if this was disabled by default I'd accept the PR as we've all done this.