Tim Peters wrote: > [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).
Just goes to show you, ignorance is bliss. What would we do without you, Tim? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
