commit c8bf95cfc58d92c365abd4c958feb15f872b2a29
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Fri Sep 20 21:24:39 2013 +0300
committer Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Fri Sep 20 21:24:39 2013 +0300
tree 5e7bf254c839c1b018a01f52c5875fca8cd54525
parent 2a97cee5eda632a7737bf01608c0f6638cd3fea0

Issue #18050: Fixed an incompatibility of the re module with Python 3.3.0
binaries.

Lib/sre_compile.py

diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index 9f59c77..b6b377f 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_compile.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 import _sre, sys
 import sre_parse
 from sre_constants import *
-from _sre import MAXREPEAT
 
 assert _sre.MAGIC == MAGIC, "SRE module mismatch"
 

Lib/sre_constants.py

diff --git a/Lib/sre_constants.py b/Lib/sre_constants.py
index 5898d54..3fb5eac 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_constants.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_constants.py
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@
 
 MAGIC = 20031017
 
-from _sre import MAXREPEAT
+try:
+    from _sre import MAXREPEAT
+except ImportError:
+    import _sre
+    MAXREPEAT = _sre.MAXREPEAT = 65535
 
 # SRE standard exception (access as sre.error)
 # should this really be here?

Lib/sre_parse.py

diff --git a/Lib/sre_parse.py b/Lib/sre_parse.py
index f26229f..8a77790 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_parse.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_parse.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 import sys
 
 from sre_constants import *
-from _sre import MAXREPEAT
 
 SPECIAL_CHARS = ".\\[{()*+?^$|"
 REPEAT_CHARS = "*+?{"