[issue2537] re.compile(r'((x|y+)*)*') should fail
Mark Dickinson
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Apr 4 19:42:09 CEST 2008
Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
I'm almost tempted to call the first of these a bug: isn't '((x|y)*)*'
a perfectly valid (albeit somewhat redundant) regular expression? What
am I missing here?
Even if there are issues with capturing, shouldn't the version without
capturing subexpressions still work?
I get:
>>> re.compile(r'(?:(?:x|y)*)*')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/re.py", line 180, in compile
return _compile(pattern, flags)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/re.py", line 233, in _compile
raise error, v # invalid expression
sre_constants.error: nothing to repeat
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nosy: +marketdickinson
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