From 6fa0c5a452ea935977b283955a1d49e5e23d97dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:54:39 +0000
Subject: Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather
 than considering it exactly like a '*'.

---
 Lib/sre_parse.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Lib/sre_parse.py')

diff --git a/Lib/sre_parse.py b/Lib/sre_parse.py
index 33b399ef65..319bf43b33 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_parse.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_parse.py
@@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ def _parse(source, state):
             elif this == "+":
                 min, max = 1, MAXREPEAT
             elif this == "{":
+                if source.next == "}":
+                    subpatternappend((LITERAL, ord(this)))
+                    continue
                 here = source.tell()
                 min, max = 0, MAXREPEAT
                 lo = hi = ""
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