pythonUser_07 wrote:
> This is a very generic observation as I don't have a lot of specifics
> with me right now. I have noticed over the past two years that the
> python "re" module is somewhat unreliable.
What do you mean with unreliable?
Can you show an example where re does not work as expected?
> At the suggestion of
> someone quite some time ago, I started to use the deprecated "pre"
> module. "import pre as re". All my problems went away.
>
> So here I am two years later, writing another script and I had
> forgotten about "pre" and wallah
>
> $ python proc.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "proc.py", line 39, in ?
> c = collect("nohup.out")
> File "proc.py", line 20, in collect
> m = p.search(cont)
> RuntimeError: maximum recursion limit exceeded
>
> As soon as I switched "import re" to "import pre as re" my program
> worked as expected. In the words of Jerry Sienfeld, what's up with
> that?
Try again with Python 2.4. The re module is now non-recursive
(http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html), so you shouldn't get any
"maximum recursion limit exceeded" errors.
Bye,
Dennis
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