[Python-Dev] sre and regexp behave baldy under lowmemory conditions

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, Guido van Rossum <guido@beopen.com> said:
> > test_re wasn't so bad, the only problem was that it crashed with a
> > "NULL return without an exception". test_regexp was worse, it crashed
> > my machine.
> 
> That's regex, right?  regexp was the *really* old regular expression
> module we once had.
> 
> Anyway, I don't care about regex, it's old.
> 
> The sre code needs to be robustified, but it's not a high priority for
> me.

Ok, fine with me.
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