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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2003-04-14 17:59:34 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2003-04-14 17:59:34 (GMT)
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SF patch #720991 by Gary Herron:
A small fix for bug #545855 and Greg Chapman's addition of op code SRE_OP_MIN_REPEAT_ONE for eliminating recursion on simple uses of pattern '*?' on a long string.
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@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Core and builtins
Extension modules
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+- The .*? pattern in the re module is now special-cased to avoid the
+ recursion limit. (SF patch #720991 -- many thanks to Gary Herron
+ and Greg Chapman.)
+
- New function sys.call_tracing() allows pdb to debug code
recursively.