[issue26068] re.compile() repr end quote truncated

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

Yes, the C code pretty much always uses %.<number><format>, in order to
protect itself from buffer overflows. Pulling off an unabbreviated str()
here would be a major piece of work.

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