- reverted to "\x is binary byte"

- removed evil tabs from sre_parse and sre_compile

Lib/sre_parse.py

@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ from sre_constants import *
 # FIXME: should be 65535, but the arraymodule is still broken
 MAXREPEAT = 32767
 
-# FIXME: same here
-CHARMASK = 0x7fff
+# FIXME: might change in 2.0 final.  but for now, this seems
+# to be the best way to be compatible with 1.5.2
+CHARMASK = 0xff
 
 SPECIAL_CHARS = ".\\[{()*+?^$|"
 REPEAT_CHARS  = "*+?{"

Lib/test/output/test_sre

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 test_sre
-=== Failed incorrectly ('\\x00ffffffffffffff', '\377', 0, 'found', '\377')
 === Failed incorrectly ('^(.+)?B', 'AB', 0, 'g1', 'A')
 === Failed incorrectly ('(a+)+\\1', 'aa', 0, 'found+"-"+g1', 'aa-a')
 === grouping error ('([^/]*/)*sub1/', 'd:msgs/tdir/sub1/trial/away.cpp', 0, 'found+"-"+g1', 'd:msgs/tdir/sub1/-tdir/') 'd:msgs/tdir/sub1/-trial/' should be 'd:msgs/tdir/sub1/-tdir/'