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Author	effbot
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Date	2001-02-21.07:05:08
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rx = re.compile (r'"(?:\\"\|[^"]){,100}?"') works. the bug is caused by an (obviously failed) attempt to minimize recursion for "*?". the checkin message says "I'm not 100% sure about this fix, but I haven't managed to come up with any test case it cannot handle...". guess this is it ;-) Thanks /F

rx = re.compile (r'"(?:\\"|[^"]){,100}?"') works.

the bug is caused by an (obviously failed) attempt to minimize recursion for "*?".  the checkin message says "I'm not 100% sure about this fix, but I haven't managed to come up with any test case it cannot handle...".  guess this is it ;-)

Thanks /F

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007-08-23 13:53:14	admin	link	issue233283 messages
2007-08-23 13:53:14	admin	create