New submission from py.user <port139 at yandex.ru>: http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/re.html#avoiding-recursion >>> import sys >>> sys.getrecursionlimit() 1000 >>> import re >>> s = 'Begin ' + 1000*'a very long string ' + 'end' >>> re.match('Begin (\w| )*? end', s).end() 19009 >>> ---------- assignee: docs at python components: Documentation, Regular Expressions messages: 156112 nosy: docs at python, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, py.user priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: In re's examples the example with recursion doesn't work versions: Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14342> _______________________________________