From 5dbbabd46312e06e6c92f4ee6d23279bae993ea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Grainger <tagrain@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:23:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] special case text_type matches Fixes #5478

---
 src/_pytest/_code/code.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/_pytest/_code/code.py b/src/_pytest/_code/code.py
index 8c73ccc6adc..1b6a765d0cd 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/_code/code.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/_code/code.py
@@ -572,6 +572,11 @@ def match(self, regexp):
         raised.
         """
         __tracebackhide__ = True
+        if isinstance(regexp, text_type):              
+            if not re.search(regexp, text_type(self.value)):
+                assert 0, u"Pattern '{!s}' not found in '{!s}'".format(regexp, self.value)
+            return True
+
         if not re.search(regexp, str(self.value)):
             assert 0, "Pattern '{!s}' not found in '{!s}'".format(regexp, self.value)
         return True