keep the buffer object around while we're using it (closes #14212)

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 0f39ead..4e18531 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-from test.support import verbose, run_unittest
+from test.support import verbose, run_unittest, gc_collect
+import io
 import re
 from re import Scanner
 import sys
@@ -16,6 +17,17 @@ import unittest
 
 class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
+    def test_keep_buffer(self):
+        # See bug 14212
+        b = bytearray(b'x')
+        it = re.finditer(b'a', b)
+        with self.assertRaises(BufferError):
+            b.extend(b'x'*400)
+        list(it)
+        del it
+        gc_collect()
+        b.extend(b'x'*400)
+
     def test_weakref(self):
         s = 'QabbbcR'
         x = re.compile('ab+c')