Can I submit an issue with Python 2.5.6?

[Matt Joiner]

Note the re.VERBOSE flag allows this whitespace treatment of the pattern.

2011/11/29 Toshiyuki Ogura <mlto at live.jp>:
> Hi.
>
> I found a problem with Python 2.5.6.
> test_commands fails when 'make test'.
> bugs.python.org doesn't seem to have an option for Python 2.5 in "Versions:"
> drop-down menu when creating an issue.
> The problem seems to be the same as #11946.
> http://bugs.python.org/issue11946
> I also made a patch for 2.5.6.
>
> --- Python-2.5.6/Lib/test/test_commands.py.orig    2006-06-29
> 04:10:08.000000000 +0000
> +++ Python-2.5.6/Lib/test/test_commands.py    2011-11-29 08:46:29.602607019
> +0000
> @@ -46,11 +46,7 @@
>          #     drwxr-xr-x   15 Joe User My Group     4096 Aug 12 12:50 /
>          # Note that the first case above has a space in the group name
>          # while the second one has a space in both names.
> -         pat = r'''d.........   # It is a directory.
> -                  \+?          # It may have ACLs.
> -                  \s+\d+       # It has some number of links.
> -                  [^/]*        # Skip user, group, size, and date.
> -                  /\.          # and end with the name of the file.
> +        pat = r'''^.*(\/\.)[\ ]*[\n\r]*$
>           &nbs p;     '''
>
>          self.assert_(re.match(pat, getstatus("/."), re.VERBOSE))
>
>
> Can I submit the issue at bugs.python.org?
> I think many people are still using Python 2.5 because of Google App Engine
> and fixing bugs with 2.5 is still helpful.
>
> Toshiyuki Ogura
>
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