[Python-Dev] SRE snapshot broken (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@alum.mit.edu
Tue, 30 May 2000 10:33:02 -0400 (EDT)

I believe I'm looking at the current version. (It's a file called snapshot.zip with no version-specific identifying info that I can find.)

The sre module changed one line in _fixflags from the CVS version.

def _fixflags(flags): # convert flag bitmask to sequence assert flags == 0 return ()

The assert flags == 0 is apparently wrong, because it gets called with an empty tuple if you use sre.search or sre.match.

Also, assuming that simply reverting to the previous test "assert not flags" fix this bug, is there a test suite that I can run? Guido asked me to check in the current snapshot, but it's hard to tell how to do that correctly. It's not clear which files belong in the Python CVS tree, nor is it clear how to test that the build worked.

Jeremy