[Skip Montanaro] > How about: > > The max recursion limit problem in the re module is well-known. Until > this limitation in the implementation is removed, to work around it > check > > http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-re.html > http://python/org/sf/493252 I've added this as a canned response, with name "SRE max recursion limit". Thanks!