Subject: Re: bug#30964: python-mode failing "overlapping strings" assertion lately

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:36:29 -0400

"Daniel Colascione" <[email-masked]> writes:

> So it turns out that it wasn't an off-by-one problem at all.  Instead,
> python was using (re-search-forward (rx (syntax string-delimiter))), which
> was matching incorrectly because re-search-forward didn't update syntax as
> it matched. It didn't do that because regex matching in general wasn't
> reentrant, and it wasn't reentrant because regex bytecode programs are
> self-modifying.
>
> I checked in some work that makes regex searching update syntax as needed.

It seems there were two separate problems.  The off-by-one error still
happens after your changes, so I pushed my patch to master.

[1: 05345babc9]: 2018-06-16 18:34:19 -0400
  Fix off by one error in python-mode assertion (Bug#30964)
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=05345babc988060cca540770599282102c34f2a7