Issue 13914: In module re the repeat interval {} doesn't accept numbers greater than 65535 (original) (raw)

import re len(re.search(r'a+', 'a' * 100000).group()) 100000

re.search(r'a{65536,}', 'a' * 100000) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/functools.py", line 176, in wrapper result = cache[key] KeyError: (<class 'str'>, 'a{65536,}', 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 158, in search return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 255, in _compile return _compile_typed(type(pattern), pattern, flags) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/functools.py", line 180, in wrapper result = user_function(*args, **kwds) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/re.py", line 267, in _compile_typed return sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_compile.py", line 491, in compile p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_parse.py", line 692, in parse p = _parse_sub(source, pattern, 0) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_parse.py", line 315, in _parse_sub itemsappend(_parse(source, state)) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/sre_parse.py", line 511, in _parse raise error("bad repeat interval") sre_constants.error: bad repeat interval

re.search(r'a{65536}', 'a' * 100000) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.2/functools.py", line 176, in wrapper result = cache[key] KeyError: (<class 'str'>, 'a{65536}', 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: