Facundo Batista added the comment: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time python -c "import re;re.search(r'a(b[^b]*b|[^c])*cxxx','abbcacabbbbcabbbbbbcabbbbbbbbbbbbbbcacabbbbbbbbbbbbbbcabbbbcac')"
real 0m2.510s user 0m2.308s sys 0m0.028s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ This is a Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:36:32) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Note that it took some seconds on my fairly fast computer... could this be a problem, that it takes long, but does not hang? ---------- nosy: +facundobatista resolution: -> works for me status: open -> closed __________________________________ 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