From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:40:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix test_limitations().  The match there is *expected* to raise
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~1001
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46144be02cbd6b8d6626c2e5048339364705c454;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Fix test_limitations().  The match there is *expected* to raise
RuntimeError.
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index d116c6d67106..51ab02df6182 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -179,7 +179,12 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_limitations(self):
         # Try nasty case that overflows the straightforward recursive
         # implementation of repeated groups.
-        self.assertEqual(re.match('(x)*', 50000*'x').span(), (0, 50000))
+        try:
+            re.match('(x)*', 50000*'x')
+        except RuntimeError, v:
+            self.assertEqual(str(v), "maximum recursion limit exceeded")
+        else:
+            self.fail("re.match('(x)*', 50000*'x') should have failed")
 
 def run_re_tests():
     from test.re_tests import benchmarks, tests, SUCCEED, FAIL, SYNTAX_ERROR