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Author	mrabarnett
Recipients	brian.curtin, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, techmaurice, vstinner
Date	2011-10-14.16:28:24
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The limit is an implementation detail. The pattern is compiled into codes which are then interpreted, and it just happens that the codes are (usually) 16 bits, giving a range of 0..65535, but it uses 65535 to represent no limit and doesn't warn if you actually write 65535. There's an alternative regex implementation here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex

The limit is an implementation detail. The pattern is compiled into codes which are then interpreted, and it just happens that the codes are (usually) 16 bits, giving a range of 0..65535, but it uses 65535 to represent no limit and doesn't warn if you actually write 65535.

There's an alternative regex implementation here:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-10-14 16:28:25	mrabarnett	set	recipients: + mrabarnett, vstinner, ezio.melotti, brian.curtin, techmaurice
2011-10-14 16:28:25	mrabarnett	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2011-10-14 16:28:24	mrabarnett	link	issue13169 messages
2011-10-14 16:28:24	mrabarnett	create