[Python-Dev] [wwwsearch-general] 2.5: recently introduced sgmllib regexp bug hangs Python

[Anthony Baxter]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 12:13, John J Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, John J Lee wrote:
> [...]
>
> > If nobody has time to fix this, perhaps rev 47154 should be reverted?
>
> I should have put it more strongly: I think it *should* in fact be
> reverted if nobody has time to fix it before the release candidate / final
> release of 2.5.  The revision in question is the most recent commit to
> sgmllib.py and certainly appears completely localised to that module.
> And a hung interpreter is worse than failing to parse some HTML, IMHO.

Well, it's a bit late for the release candidate :-) but I agree - if it can't 
be fixed before 2.5 final, it should be reverted.

Anthony

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