From: Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:38:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: note new sre algorithm
X-Git-Tag: v2.3.3c1~80
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e4a3d299054bc881fcb90bc5e53fecb3ea283a9;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

note new sre algorithm
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 101dc0a8428e..0c1585fe4a2f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ Extension modules
 
 - Bug #814613: INET_ADDRSTRLEN fix needed for all compilers on SGI
 
+- The sre module (which underlies the re module) now uses a non-recursive
+  algorithm for matching. A bunch of ugly REs that used to fail with a 
+  RuntimeError will now work.
+
 Library
 -------
 
@@ -42,9 +46,11 @@ Library
 
 - Bug #780461: platform.mac_ver() raised MacOSError exception under OS X.
 
-- Bug #812202:  random.randrange() returned only even numbers
+- Bug #812202: random.randrange() returned only even numbers
   for range lengths above 2**53.
 
+- Bug #823328: urllib2's HTTP Digest Auth support works again.
+
 What's New in Python 2.3.2 (final)?
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