I have a string which I wish to match using RE, however when I run my comparison (using the match method) on my machine it never returns, using the CPU fully.
The code is (very simply): ------------------------------ import re buffer = r"#1 1 550 111 SYNC_PEER RES <YP>syncpeers=(id=54325432;add=10." \ "0.0.1;port=89;up=89),(id=97899;add=10.0.0.1;port=543;up=543)," \ "(id=54325432;add=10.0.0.1;port=89;up=8" p = re.compile(r'#(?P<tran>[0-9]+\s)(?P<sess>[0-9]+\s)' \ + '(?P<ndto>[0-9]+\s)(?P<ndfr>[0-9]+\s)' \ + '(?P<cmd>[a-zA-Z_]+\s)(?P<dir>[a-zA-Z_]+)' \ + '(?P<parm>(\s<[a-zA-Z]+>(\s*[a-zA-Z]+=[a-zA' \ + '-Z0-9.,=();]+\s*)+<[a-zA-Z]+>)*)#(?P<left>.*$)') print "starting the match" rst = (p.match (buffer) != None) print "finishing the match" -------------------------------- Should this every actually happen? Regardless of whether the statment matches or not, surely it should do this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list