[ python-Bugs-931848 ] re seems broken on 64-bit machines/linux

Thu Apr 8 13:02:19 EDT 2004

Bugs item #931848, was opened at 2004-04-08 13:02
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Category: Regular Expressions
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Mihai Ibanescu (misa)
Assigned to: Fredrik Lundh (effbot)
Summary: re seems broken on 64-bit machines/linux

Initial Comment:
Hello,

Tested the following piece of code both on ia64 and amd64.

python -c &#039;import re; print
re.compile(u"[\u002E\u3002\uFF0E\uFF61]").split("a.b.c")&#039;

Expected result:
[&#039;a&#039;, &#039;b&#039;, &#039;c&#039;]

Actual result: varies depending on the version of glibc
(probably).
On glibc-2.3.2 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 WS) I get back:
[&#039;a.b.c&#039;]

On glibc-2.3.3 (Fedora Core 2) I get back:
[&#039;a.b.&#039;, &#039;&#039;]

This doesn&#039;t happen on i386 architectures.

The above string that I try to compile comes from
encodings/idna.py (and it is used to split a domain
name into components).

Let me know if you need more information on how to
reproduce this.

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