Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
64-bit).
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+- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
+ increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
+ 64-bit).
+
- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
- Issue #11311: StringIO.readline(0) now returns an empty string as all other