Dan Boxall <dbox...@l3mtechnologies.com> added the comment:
Yes I realised that, as I said earlier. But it could say, "Invalid regular expression" and not produce ten lines of error messages. On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 at 14:21, Steven D'Aprano <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment: > > This is not a bug in Python, it is an invalid (broken) regular expression. > There is nothing that the interpreter or the regular expression engine can > do, because you are telling it to do something that makes no sense. What do > you expect findall to find, if you ask it to find something nonsensical? > > You say: > > "repeat this pattern any number of times" > > but there is no "this pattern" to be repeated. You are asking for > something impossible. The only legitimate response is to report back that > the regular expression is invalid and cannot be compiled, and fail > immediately. > > ---------- > nosy: +steven.daprano > resolution: -> not a bug > stage: -> resolved > status: open -> closed > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <https://bugs.python.org/issue35146> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35146> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
