Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.b...@gmail.com> added the comment: First, many thanks for this contribution; it's great, that the re module gets updated in that comprehensive way!
I'd like to report some issue with the current version (issue2636-20090804.zip). Using an empty string as the search pattern ends up consuming system resources and the function doesn't return anything nor raise an exception or crash (within several minutes I tried). The current re engine simply returns the empty matches on all character boundaries in this case. I use win XPh SP3, the behaviour is the same on python 2.5.4 and 2.6.2: It should be reproducible with the following simple code: >>> import re >>> import regex >>> re.findall("", "abcde") ['', '', '', '', '', ''] >>> regex.findall("", "abcde") _ regards vbr ---------- nosy: +vbr _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2636> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com