[Python-Dev] Time for 2.3.3?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 14:22, Tim Peters wrote:

> block (which is in turn nested in a !defined(USE_STACKCHECK) block, which is
> in turn nested in an ifndef SRE_RECURSIVE block).  God only knows what the
> intent was.  But I expect that, yes, USE_RECURSION_LIMIT isn't getting
> defined on anything other than FreeBSD and Win64.

Yep, you're right.  If I hack _sre.c with the patch below, I think I get
something closer to what we expect to see.

% ./python
Python 2.3.3a0 (#5, Nov 21 2003, 14:26:25) 
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import _sre
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>>> _sre.RECURSION_LIMIT
10000
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>>> 
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...

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ERROR: test_bug_418626 (__main__.ReTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Lib/test/test_re.py", line 410, in test_bug_418626
    self.assertEqual(re.search('(a|b)*?c', 10000*'ab'+'cd').end(0), 20001)
  File "/home/barry/projects/python23/Lib/sre.py", line 137, in search
    return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion limit exceeded

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ERROR: test_stack_overflow (__main__.ReTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Lib/test/test_re.py", line 420, in test_stack_overflow
    self.assertEqual(re.match('(x)*', 50000*'x').group(1), 'x')
  File "/home/barry/projects/python23/Lib/sre.py", line 132, in match
    return _compile(pattern, flags).match(string)
RuntimeError: maximum recursion limit exceeded

I'll leave it to someone else to check in the proper fix.  (But does
anybody else like exposing RECURSION_LIMIT in the _sre module?)

-Barry


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