Dan <wit...@torsion.org> added the comment: Here's an easy way to trigger the poor performance. Tested with 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7:
re.compile( '(\s+.*)*x' ).search( 'a ' * 30 ) ---------- nosy: +witten _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1662581> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com