-- added recursion limit (currently ~10,000 levels)
-- improved error messages
-- factored out SRE_COUNT; the same code is used by
SRE_OP_REPEAT_ONE_TEMPLATE
-- minor cleanups
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sre.py b/Lib/test/test_sre.py
index 342c33d..2f16d29 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sre.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sre.py
@@ -264,6 +264,16 @@
except:
print 'Exception raised on flag', flags
+if verbose:
+ print 'Test engine limitations'
+
+# Try nasty case that overflows the straightforward recursive
+# implementation of repeated groups.
+try:
+ assert sre.match('(x)*', 50000*'x').span() == (0, 50000)
+except RuntimeError, v:
+ print v
+
from re_tests import *
if verbose: