On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:55:17 -0700, Joerg Schuster wrote: > No limitation at all would be best. If a limitation is necessary, then > the more capturing groups, the better. At the time being, I would be > really happy about having the possibility to use 10000 capturing > groups.
Do you really think that the regular expression needed to do that would be maintainable? I'm also curious, what sort of usage case would need ten thousand capturing groups? I'd love to see the performance, especially if all ten thousand of them do backtracking. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
