From c8bf95cfc58d92c365abd4c958feb15f872b2a29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 21:24:39 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #18050: Fixed an incompatibility of the re module with
 Python 3.3.0 binaries.

---
 Lib/sre_compile.py   | 1 -
 Lib/sre_constants.py | 6 +++++-
 Lib/sre_parse.py     | 1 -
 Misc/NEWS            | 3 +++
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index 9f59c770dc4..b6b377f25bc 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"
 
diff --git a/Lib/sre_constants.py b/Lib/sre_constants.py
index 5898d5411a9..3fb5eac3228 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?
diff --git a/Lib/sre_parse.py b/Lib/sre_parse.py
index f26229fc287..8a77790b08d 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 = "*+?{"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8570371e6de..451aba63bae 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #18050: Fixed an incompatibility of the re module with Python 3.3.0
+  binaries.
+
 - Issue #19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files
   before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other programs
   that may be accessing the maildir directory.