From 015415ed149a8bcdcbea95a1b486a818a3ae59e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:48:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] SRE 2.1b2: increase the chances that the sre test works on
 other machines...

---
 Lib/test/output/test_sre | 8 --------
 Lib/test/test_sre.py     | 9 +++------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/output/test_sre b/Lib/test/output/test_sre
index 6a2dc8cb959..dbb6e9398da 100644
--- a/Lib/test/output/test_sre
+++ b/Lib/test/output/test_sre
@@ -1,9 +1 @@
 test_sre
-sre.match(r'(x)*?y', 50000*'x'+'y').span() FAILED
-Traceback (most recent call last):
-  File "../lib/test\test_sre.py", line 18, in test
-    r = eval(expression)
-  File "<string>", line 0, in ?
-  File "c:\pythonware\py21\python-2.1\lib\sre.py", line 52, in match
-    return _compile(pattern, flags).match(string)
-RuntimeError: maximum recursion limit exceeded
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sre.py b/Lib/test/test_sre.py
index 031cda6c0b4..f133c988f00 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sre.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sre.py
@@ -243,12 +243,9 @@ if verbose:
 
 # Try nasty case that overflows the straightforward recursive
 # implementation of repeated groups.
-test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*', 50000*'x').span()""",
-     (0, 50000), RuntimeError)
-test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()""",
-     (0, 50001), RuntimeError)
-test(r"""sre.match(r'(x)*?y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()""",
-     (0, 50001)) # this works in 2.1
+test("sre.match('(x)*', 50000*'x').span()", (0, 50000), RuntimeError)
+test("sre.match(r'(x)*y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()", (0, 50001), RuntimeError)
+test("sre.match(r'(x)*?y', 50000*'x'+'y').span()", (0, 50001), RuntimeError)
 
 from re_tests import *