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Author joente
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Date 2015-11-05.08:27:43
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When compiling a regular expression with groups (subpatterns), 
circular references are created.
Here is an example to illustrate the problem:

>>> import gc
>>> import re
>>> gc.disable() # disable garbage collector
>>> gc.collect() # make sure we start with 0
0
>>> re.compile('(a|b)') # compile something with groups
re.compile('(a|b)')
>>> gc.collect() # collects x objects depending on the compiled string
11


To fix the issue a weakref object for p is used.
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