From fe28d3873f4b5599ea0af523783b232352221ae4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Calen Pennington <cale@edx.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:11:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Only execute regex queries for case-insitive lookup in split.

[LMS-11402]
---
 .../modulestore/split_mongo/mongo_connection.py    | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/split_mongo/mongo_connection.py b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/split_mongo/mongo_connection.py
index 73363b7cf0..ed1856bde7 100644
--- a/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/split_mongo/mongo_connection.py
+++ b/common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/modulestore/split_mongo/mongo_connection.py
@@ -159,13 +159,17 @@ class MongoConnection(object):
         """
         Get the course_index from the persistence mechanism whose id is the given key
         """
-        case_regex = ur"(?i)^{}$" if ignore_case else ur"{}"
-        return self.course_index.find_one(
-            {
-                key_attr: re.compile(case_regex.format(getattr(key, key_attr)))
+        if ignore_case:
+            query = {
+                key_attr: re.compile(u'^{}$'.format(re.escape(getattr(key, key_attr))), re.IGNORECASE)
                 for key_attr in ('org', 'course', 'run')
             }
-        )
+        else:
+            query = {
+                key_attr: getattr(key, key_attr)
+                for key_attr in ('org', 'course', 'run')
+            }
+        return self.course_index.find_one(query)
 
     def find_matching_course_indexes(self, branch=None, search_targets=None):
         """