From e1123d8a6a1e7814b960e07bbbdd1c9b0b721da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: levcovenant <42414087+levcovenant@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:03:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixed error with regex on python3.7

source: https://github.com/joepie91/python-whois/issues/142
---
 pythonwhois/parse.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pythonwhois/parse.py b/pythonwhois/parse.py
index b525ebb..c492a62 100644
--- a/pythonwhois/parse.py
+++ b/pythonwhois/parse.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ def precompile_regexes(source, flags=0):
 
 def preprocess_regex(regex):
 	# Fix for #2; prevents a ridiculous amount of varying size permutations.
-	regex = re.sub(r"\\s\*\(\?P<([^>]+)>\.\+\)", r"\s*(?P<\1>\S.*)", regex)
+	regex = re.sub(r"\\s\*\(\?P<([^>]+)>\.\+\)", r"\\s*(?P<\1>\\S.*)", regex)
 	# Experimental fix for #18; removes unnecessary variable-size whitespace
 	# matching, since we're stripping results anyway.
 	regex = re.sub(r"\[ \]\*\(\?P<([^>]+)>\.\*\)", r"(?P<\1>.*)", regex)