Florian Bruhin added the comment: I see how it's not possible to compile that pattern as it's using recursion - I don't mind that.
However, I think this should be handled and re-raised as a re.error ("Exception raised [...] when some other error occurs during compilation or matching."). I think no matter what the pattern is, it's quite unexpected to get anything other than a re.error (or a TypeError) from re.compile. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25550> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com