Add nasty test case that overflows the stack with a repeated group

a3eacc47 · Andrew M. Kuchling · e365fb8d · a3eacc47
Commit a3eacc47 authored Aug 03, 2000 by Andrew M. Kuchling
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--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ try:
 except:
    raise TestFailed, "re.search"

+# Try nasty case that overflows the straightforward recursive
+# implementation of repeated groups.
+assert re.match('(x)*', 50000*'x').span() == (0, 50000)
+
 if verbose:
    print 'Running tests on re.sub'