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/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 *