Maurice de Rooij <mau...@gmail.com> added the comment: So if I understand correctly, the maximum of 65535 repetitions is by design?
Have tried a workaround by repeating the repetitions by placing it inside a capturing group, which is perfectly legal with Perl regular expressions: $mystring = "test"; if($mystring =~ m/^(.{0,32766}){0,3}test/s) { print "Yes\n"; } (32766 being the max repetitions in Perl) Unfortunately, in Python this does not work and raises a "nothing to repeat" sre_constants error: re.search('(?s)\A(.{0,65535}){0,3}test', 'test') This, however works, which yields 65536 repetitions of DOTALL: re.search('(?s)\A.{0,65535}.{0,1}test', 'test') In the end this solves my problem sort or less, but requires extra logic in my script and complicates stuff unnecessary. A suggestion might be to make repetitions of repeats possible? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13169> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com