Tim Peters added the comment: It will always complete, but may take a very long time - this is one of many ways to write a regexp that can't match requiring time exponential in the length of the string. It's not a bug - it's the way Python's kind of regexp engine works. For detailed explanation, see Jeffrey Friedl's book "Mastering Regular Expressions":
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