Roy Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>I have a regular expression that is approximately 100k bytes. (It is >>basically a list of all known norwegian postal numbers and the >>corresponding place with | in between. I know this is not the intended >>use for regular expressions, but it should nonetheless work. >> >>the pattern is >>ur'(N-|NO-)?(5259 HJELLESTAD|4026 STAVANGER|4027 STAVANGER........|8305 >>SVOLVÆR)' >> >>The error message I get is: >>RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine > > > I don't know of any stated maximum length, but I'm not at all surprised > this causes the regex compiler to blow up. This is clearly a case of regex > being the wrong tool for the job.
Does no one care about an internal error in the regular expression engine? -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list