Making regex suck less

[Ben Wolfson]

On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 06:41:14 GMT, "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com>
wrote:

>Bengt Richter wrote:
>
>> >you can ask SRE to dump the internal parse tree
>> >to stdout:
>> >
>> >>>> sre.compile("[a-z]\d*", sre.DEBUG)
>> >in
>> >  range (97, 122)
>> >max_repeat 0 65535
>> >  in
>> >    category category_digit
>> >
>> >turning this into 'English' is left as an exercise etc.
>>
>> Interesting, thanks. Does the above mean that sre can't fully match
>>  'a'+'9'*65537
>> ?
>
>in this context, 65535 represents any number:

Doesn't that cause problems for something like this?

>>> m=re.compile(r'\d{0,65535}a').match(('9'*1000000)+'a')
>>> len(m.group(0))
1000001

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