Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis...@gmail.com> added the comment:
It's well-known that regular expressions can take exponential time. You can try searching this bug tracker for "re exponential". Common suggestions are to try a third-party module, or to write better regexes where possible. Note that the important bits of the re module are already implemented in C: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/_sre.c ---------- nosy: +Dennis Sweeney _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue43686> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
