[Bug #1526834] Fix crash in pdb when you do 'b f(';

akuchling · akuchling · commit e6728252a359 · 2006-09-05T13:19:18.000Z
the function name was placed into a regex pattern and the unbalanced paren
caused re.compile() to report an error
diff --git a/Lib/pdb.py b/Lib/pdb.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
            "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:
