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Author hardkrash
Recipients ezio.melotti, hardkrash, mrabarnett
Date 2014-02-19.01:04:02
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The RE compiler will not error out, with a back reference in there...
It treats the {\1} as a literal {\1} in the string.

In [180]: re.search("(\d) fo.{\1}", '3 foo{\1}').group(0)
Out[180]: '3 foo{\x01}'
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