[Bryan Olson] >> Does no one care about an internal error in the regular expression >> engine?
[Steve Holden] > Not one that requires parsing a 100 kilobyte re that should be replaced > by something more sensible, no. I care: this is a case of not detecting information loss due to unchecked downcasting in C, and it was pure luck that it resulted in an internal re error rather than, say, a wrong result. God only knows what other pathologies the re engine could tricked into exhibiting this way. Python 2.5 will raise an exception instead, during regexp compilation (I just checked in code for this on the trunk; with some luck, someone will backport that to 2.4 too). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
