New submission from Israel Tsadok: import re re.search(r'a(b[^b]*b|[^c])*cxxx', 'abbcacabbbbcabbbbbbcabbbbbbbbbbbbbbcacabbbbbbbbbbbbbbcabbbbcac')
perl seems to handle this just fine. (The original problem was trying to translate some html to text: re.sub(r'<p(?:"[^"]*"|[^>])*>(.*?)</p>', r'\1\n') This hanged on several files. Changing [^>] to [^">] resolved my problem, but the general case remains.) This might be a dupe of http://bugs.python.org/issue1297193 ---------- components: Regular Expressions messages: 61739 nosy: itsadok severity: normal status: open title: re.search hangs on this versions: Python 2.5 __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1946> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
