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. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18647> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com