Bug#710315: python2.7: 2.7.5 has bug in regexp engine

2013-05-29 Thread will kahn-greene
I just installed the packages Paul built with that patch and they work super: saturn ~/tmp/python2.7/public.pault.ag/python> python Python 2.7.5 (default, May 29 2013, 22:31:19) [GCC 4.7.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re; re.compile

Bug#710315: python2.7: 2.7.5 has bug in regexp engine

2013-05-29 Thread will kahn-greene
This is with the 2.7.5 packages in debian testing: saturn ~> python Python 2.7.5 (default, May 20 2013, 13:49:25) [GCC 4.7.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> re.compile('.*yz', re.S).findall('xyz') Traceback (most recent call last