From bbbc97c11b1459fb005eec1dbc6ad992329c35f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 09:59:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added fix for possible bug in re.finditer.

---
 src/callbacks.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/callbacks.py b/src/callbacks.py
index 9805d13d5..dd4f2337c 100644
--- a/src/callbacks.py
+++ b/src/callbacks.py
@@ -686,7 +686,13 @@ class PrivmsgRegexp(Privmsg):
             return
         fed = False
         for (r, method) in self.res:
+            spans = sets.Set()
             for m in r.finditer(msg.args[1]):
+                # There's a bug in finditer: http://www.python.org/sf/817234
+                if m.span() in spans:
+                    break
+                else:
+                    spans.add(m.span())
                 if not fed:
                     fed = True
                     self.rateLimiter.put(msg)