commit ef3173877c78f1bbab1e570c68b2ce11460a9f5b
author Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> Sat Nov 03 20:31:12 2012 +0200
committer Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> Sat Nov 03 20:31:12 2012 +0200
tree 8ebc9c5c4171ff1408e783fd9e9099fee097c02c
parent d1076dbef8c0cdf6c35101f7c99cdcd319a1e8e5

#12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group is missing.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Misc/NEWS

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fedcd35..1d4c347 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -130,6 +130,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
+  is missing.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
 - Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
   no newline is found.  Patch by Ned Batchelder.