[Python-Dev] sre and regexp behave baldy under lowmemory conditions (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen jack@oratrix.nl
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:48:24 +0200

Recently, Guido van Rossum <guido@beopen.com> said:

> testre wasn't so bad, the only problem was that it crashed with a > "NULL return without an exception". testregexp was worse, it crashed > my machine.

That's regex, right? regexp was the really old regular expression module we once had. Anyway, I don't care about regex, it's old. The sre code needs to be robustified, but it's not a high priority for me.

Ok, fine with me.

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