On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:40:03 -0700, John Machin wrote: >> To my mind, this is a bug in the RE engine. Is there any reason to not >> treat it as a bug? > > IMHO it's not a bug -- s/hang/takes a long time to compute/ > > Just look at it: 2 + operators and 3 * operators ... It's one of those > "come back after lunch" REs.
Well, it's been running now for about two and a half hours, that's a rather long lunch. And despite MRAB's assertion, it *cannot* be interrupted by ctrl-C. That means that to all intents and purposes, the interpreter has locked up for the duration of the calculation, which may be days or weeks for all I know. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
