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Author tim.peters
Recipients Arfrever, eli.bendersky, ezio.melotti, larry, mrabarnett, pitrou, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2013-08-04.23:54:31
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> Python's current regex engine isn't so coded. That's
> the reason for the up-front check.

It's peculiar then that nobody noticed before now that the check was so badly broken ;-)

Offhand, do you have an example that displays bad behavior in 2.7?  I'm curious because I didn't find one after half an hour of trying.
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