on 1/31/01 9:14 AM, Trent Mick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Using stackless might help. Either way you should report this to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] where Fredrik Lundt, the guy who implemented the new > regex engine (sre) in Python 2.0, will be listening. He should be able to give > you a more authoritative response. This was one of several bugs in sre that were outstanding when Python 2.0 was released. Eff-bot fixed all remainging bugs for Python 2.1 alpha. See the "eff-bot online" entry for Jan. 14 at http://hem.passagen.se/eff/2001_01_01_bot-archive.htm for a list of the specific bugs. Unfortunately, the sre.dll (on Windows) and the supporting Python files seem dependent on Python 2.1 alpha, so you can't simply update your 2.0 sre files. The solution I've been using, in the mean time, is import pre as re --David Niergarth http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=115696&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/activepython