[New-bugs-announce] [issue14342] In re's examples the example with recursion doesn't work

[py.user]

New submission from py.user <port139 at yandex.ru>:

http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/re.html#avoiding-recursion

>>> import sys
>>> sys.getrecursionlimit()
1000
>>> import re
>>> s = 'Begin ' + 1000*'a very long string ' + 'end'
>>> re.match('Begin (\w| )*? end', s).end()
19009
>>>

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation, Regular Expressions
messages: 156112
nosy: docs at python, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, py.user
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: In re's examples the example with recursion doesn't work
versions: Python 3.2

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