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Date 2003-08-26.16:47:14
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afaik, the following has worked since 1.6, and still works 
in 2.3:

>>> import re
>>> try:
...     re.compile("[]*")
... except re.error:
...     print "oops"
...
oops

what Python version are you using?
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