On Apr 11, 12:40 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > 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.
While beyond the limits of a long lunch, that would make a nice vacation? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
