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