[issue18647] re.error: nothing to repeat

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters added the comment:

> Python's current regex engine isn't so coded. That's
> the reason for the up-front check.

It's peculiar then that nobody noticed before now that the check was so badly broken ;-)

Offhand, do you have an example that displays bad behavior in 2.7?  I'm curious because I didn't find one after half an hour of trying.

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