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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2000-08-03 02:06:45 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2000-08-03 02:06:45 (GMT)
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Add nasty test case that overflows the stack with a repeated group
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index c3c70bc..46f442d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ try:
except:
raise TestFailed, "re.search"
+# Try nasty case that overflows the straightforward recursive
+# implementation of repeated groups.
+assert re.match('(x)*', 50000*'x').span() == (0, 50000)
+
if verbose:
print 'Running tests on re.sub'