Because both are quite capable of crashing a thread (maybe the whole thing), with poorly written regex expressions. Creating infinate loops is easier than you think, esp if your regex requires backtracking to "solve". Perhaps there should be a simplified regex engine available, that I don't know. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli | petrilli@digicool.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim McLaughlin" <tim@BCSWebservices.net> To: <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:35 PM Subject: [Zope-dev] regex (or re) modules

Does anybody know why these modules aren't available for DTML and Python Methods? (I already hacked my server, just wanna know what I'm riskin)