From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 13:19:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [Bug #1526834] Fix crash in pdb when you do 'b f(';
X-Git-Tag: v2.6a1~2698
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6728252a3598527bbda15c7ee17e03bf2c448f1;p=python

[Bug #1526834] Fix crash in pdb when you do 'b f(';
the function name was placed into a regex pattern and the unbalanced paren
caused re.compile() to report an error
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diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
index 83884d7987..dfa6fc8246 100755
--- a/Lib/pdb.py
+++ b/Lib/pdb.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ __all__ = ["run", "pm", "Pdb", "runeval", "runctx", "runcall", "set_trace",
            "post_mortem", "help"]
 
 def find_function(funcname, filename):
-    cre = re.compile(r'def\s+%s\s*[(]' % funcname)
+    cre = re.compile(r'def\s+%s\s*[(]' % re.escape(funcname))
     try:
         fp = open(filename)
     except IOError: