[issue31759] re wont recover nor fail on runaway regular expression

2017-10-11 Thread Raphaël Riel
Raphaël Riel added the comment: Thanks Tim! Pretty nice answer that I can learn from! Thanks for your time. I definitely knew my Regex was broken, yet I was surprised the interpreter/library didn't gave up/error after some(several million) steps. Some other language seems to just a

[issue31759] re wont recover nor fail on runaway regular expression

2017-10-11 Thread Raphaël Riel
Raphaël Riel added the comment: Results for my local computer: ``` Attempting test_01 Done in 0.12ms Attempting test_02 Done in 1.52ms Attempting test_03 Done in 26.24ms Attempting test_04 Done in 432.32ms Attempting test_05 Done in 886.3ms Attempting test_06 Done in 1757.07ms Attempting

[issue31759] re wont recover nor fail on runaway regular expression

2017-10-11 Thread Raphaël Riel
New submission from Raphaël Riel : re won't raise nor return when working with Runaway Regular Expression. It will compute "almost" indefinitely. Although I'm pretty sure it *may* complete sometime, it's definetly looks like it's stuck. ``` > python - Pytho