[issue13169] Regular expressions with 0 to 65536 repetitions raises OverflowError

[Matthew Barnett]

Matthew Barnett <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> added the comment:

The limit is an implementation detail. The pattern is compiled into codes which are then interpreted, and it just happens that the codes are (usually) 16 bits, giving a range of 0..65535, but it uses 65535 to represent no limit and doesn't warn if you actually write 65535.

There's an alternative regex implementation here:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex

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