From 5e7d51b62cc86314987b833a2a800b9528e906d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@pythonware.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 06:15:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] make sure to check for this limit even if we're running with
 -O

---
 Lib/sre_compile.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index fa21d95f56..27ab1fe748 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_compile.py
@@ -502,8 +502,10 @@ def compile(p, flags=0):
     # print code
 
     # XXX: <fl> get rid of this limitation!
-    assert p.pattern.groups <= 100,\
-           "sorry, but this version only supports 100 named groups"
+    if p.pattern.groups > 100:
+        raise AssertionError(
+            "sorry, but this version only supports 100 named groups"
+            )
 
     # map in either direction
     groupindex = p.pattern.groupdict
-- 
2.40.0