pathlib.PurePath.match() doesn't usefnmatch() to match path anchors, contrary to the documentation. Instead, it considers the drive and root of the pattern separately; if either (or both) is specified in the pattern, it mustexactly match the corresponding drive/root in the path.

This results in the following:

>>>frompathlibimportPureWindowsPathasP>>>P('c:/b.py').match('*:/*.py')False>>>P('c:/b.py').match('c:*.py')True>>>P('c:/b.py').match('/*.py')True>>>P('//some/share/a.py').match('//*/*/*.py')False>>>P('//some/share/a.py').match('/*.py')True

All of these results are wrong IMO.

Linked PRs

• gh-101360: Fix anchor matching in pathlib.PureWindowsPath.match() #101363