Re: [Python-Dev] Some questions about maintenance of the regular expression code.

Greg Chapman may have provided an effective end to this thread. He sent me (apparently via private email since I haven't seen it on this list yet) a patch which removes the recursion in simple uses of .*?. The code is patterened after the way simple uses of .* are currently handled without recursion. Still complex uses of either minimizing or maximizing repeats will recurse. For example (a|b)*c and (a|b)*?c will both recurse as they chew through a string of a's and b's. I don't consider this a bug. I'll test his patch tonight. Thank you Greg, Gary Herron