[issue12177] re.match raises MemoryError

[EungJun Yi]

EungJun Yi <semtlenori at gmail.com> added the comment:

This also raises in 2.6.5

Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) 
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
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>>> import re
>>> re.match('()+?1', 'a1')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/re.py", line 137, in match
    return _compile(pattern, flags).match(string)
MemoryError

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versions: +Python 2.6

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