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Author mrabarnett
Recipients brian.curtin, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, techmaurice, vstinner
Date 2011-10-13.17:46:28
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The quantifiers use 65535 to represent no upper limit, so ".{0,65535}" is equivalent to ".*".

For example:

>>> re.match(".*", "x" * 100000).span()
(0, 100000)
>>> re.match(".{0,65535}", "x" * 100000).span()
(0, 100000)

but:

>>> re.match(".{0,65534}", "x" * 100000).span()
(0, 65534)
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