Re: Python 2.4.1 hang

2005-04-15 Thread Mahesh
Yes, it is stupid but I am debugging some poorly written C++ code so I cannot change it. It was easier for me to use python to try various combinations (since the C++ code uses a non-standard re engine). I just chanced upon the problem and was curious as to what Python was up to. Thanks for cleari

Re: Python 2.4.1 hang

2005-04-15 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Mahesh wrote: I needed to get to the POST body and while I was trying out various regular expressions, one of them caused Python to hang. The Python process was taking up 100% of the CPU. I couldn't even see the "Max recursion depth exceeded message". Is this a bug? no, it's just a very stupid way