Matthew Barnett added the comment:
I've attached fnmatch_implementation.py, which is a simple pure-Python
implementation of the fnmatch function.
It's not as susceptible to catastrophic backtracking as the current re-based
one. For example:
fnmatch('a' * 50, '*a*' * 50)
completes quickly.
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nosy: +mrabarnett
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29343/fnmatch_implementation.py
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