<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i en meddelelse news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a regular expression that is approximately 100k bytes. (It is > basically a list of all known norwegian postal numbers and the > corresponding place with | in between. I know this is not the intended > use for regular expressions, but it should nonetheless work.
Err. No. A while back it was established in this forum that re's per design can have a maximum of 99 match groups ... I suspect that every "|" silently consumes one match group. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list