From 5e376a7809d7efe014f3f9b967a4554d79e10328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 23:46:19 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #18647: Temporary disable the "nothing to repeat" check
 to make buildbots happy.

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

diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index 90e3a25f1ab..40d2d520eda 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_compile.py
@@ -358,8 +358,8 @@ def _optimize_unicode(charset, fixup):
 def _simple(av):
     # check if av is a "simple" operator
     lo, hi = av[2].getwidth()
-    if lo == 0 and hi == MAXREPEAT:
-        raise error("nothing to repeat")
+    #if lo == 0 and hi == MAXREPEAT:
+    #    raise error("nothing to repeat")
     return lo == hi == 1 and av[2][0][0] != SUBPATTERN
 
 def _compile_info(code, pattern, flags):