Consider this code snippet:


from re import match, fullmatch

pattern = '".+?"'
string = '"hello" "again"'

print(match(pattern, string))
print(fullmatch(pattern, string))


Which prints:
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 7), match='"hello"'>
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 15), match='"hello" "again"'>

The fullmatch function seems to ignore the non-greedy modifier.

From the fullmatch docstring I expected that fullmatch is equivalent to:

def fullmatch(pattern, string):
    match = re.match(pattern, string)
    if match:
        if match.start() == 0 and match.end() == len(string):
            return match
        else:
            return None
    else:
        return None