Raphaël Riel <raphael.r...@gmail.com> added the comment: Thanks Tim! Pretty nice answer that I can learn from! Thanks for your time.
I definitely knew my Regex was broken, yet I was surprised the interpreter/library didn't gave up/error after some(several million) steps. Some other language seems to just assume there will be no match (Source: some play on https://regex101.com/), and I don't think this is a valid approach. Should there be a WARNing logged on a defined soft-limit? I know this is low-level "re" library, and your point is pretty valid about the fact the lib should be doing what it's told to do. I was mostly looking for opinion about WARNs on soft limits and maybe errors on a hard-limit to debug/avoid this kind of false-hang situation. Feel free to close/wont-fix/not-a-bug this issue! And thanks again for your kind answer to my initial issue! ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31759> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
