[XML-SIG] Preparing for PyXML 0.6.5

[Martin v. Loewis]

> If my suggested fix for bug #407810 in xmlproc is correct, it would be
> trivial to fix.  If it's not, this might be more difficult to fix.
> 
>         Lengthy comment blocks cause xmlproc to raise a 
>         RuntimeError: "maximum recursion depth exceeded" 
>         error. The problem is that a group is used to match an 
>         individual character, and SRE recurses 
>         on group repeats: '([^-]|-[^-])*'. 
> 
>         Fix: would '(.*?)--' be an equivalent pattern? 

I must admit that *? was new to me, but it appears to be extremely
useful, and that appears to be the right use for it. IOW, I think your
fix is correct (and probably more efficient in day-to-day use, also).

Regards,
Martin

P.S. Could you take another look at the patches that have been
assigned to you; if not, can you unassign them?

P.P.S. Recently, I could not assign anything to None on SF, so the
last "can" is not only "are you willing to", but also "are you capable
of" :-?