reapplied darryl gallion's minimizing repeat fix.  I'm still not 100%
sure about this one, but test #133283 now works even with the fix in
place, and so does the test suite.  we'll see what comes up...
diff --git a/Lib/test/re_tests.py b/Lib/test/re_tests.py
index 7c5dc89..d69b324 100755
--- a/Lib/test/re_tests.py
+++ b/Lib/test/re_tests.py
@@ -638,6 +638,8 @@
     (r'(?i)[m]+', 'MMM', SUCCEED, 'found', 'MMM'),
     # bug 130748: ^* should be an error (nothing to repeat)
     (r'^*', '', SYNTAX_ERROR),
+    # bug 133283: minimizing repeat bug
+    (r'"(?:\\"|[^"])*?"', r'"\""', SUCCEED, 'found', r'"\"'),
 ]
 
 try:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sre.py b/Lib/test/test_sre.py
index f133c98..e266d14 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sre.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sre.py
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@
 # implementation of repeated groups.
 test("sre.match('(x)*', 50000*'x').span()", (0, 50000), RuntimeError)
 test("sre.match(r'(x)*y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()", (0, 50001), RuntimeError)
-test("sre.match(r'(x)*?y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()", (0, 50001), RuntimeError)
+test("sre.match(r'(x)*?y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()", (0, 50001))
 
 from re_tests import *