Gary Herron wrote: > The first glance at the regular expression bug list and the _sre.c > code results in the observation that several of the bugs are related > to running over the recursion limit. The problem comes from using a > pattern containing ".*?" in a situation where it is expected to match > many thousands of characters. Each character matched by ".*?" causes > one level or recursion, quickly overflowing the recursion limit. Wouldn't it be possible for the RE compiler to issue a warning in case these kind of patterns are used ? This would be much more helpful than trying to work-around the user problem. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Software directly from the Source (#1, Feb 26 2003) >>> Python/Zope Products & Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Python UK 2003, Oxford: 34 days left EuroPython 2003, Charleroi, Belgium: 118 days left
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