Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > 2. Matthew said that Python's engine is not robust against _unbounded_ > repeated matching of an empty sub-match, and so "That's the reason for the > up-front check". I was asking for an example of _that_ behavior. I still > haven't seen one.
Perhaps Matthew did not understand you or you did not understand Matthew. For non-greedy repeats this was fixed in issue9669 (thank to Matthew). For greedy repeats this was fixed some time before. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18647> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
