Has to be something really stupid, but the following never finish
(running Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 10 2008, 18:00:49)
[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2).
The intention is to match C++ identifiers, with or without namespace
qualification, with or without arguments (e.g. variables, function
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:01:59 +0000, Maurizio Vitale wrote:
>
>> And yes, I'm a total beginner when it comes to Python, but it seems
>> very strange to me that a regex match on a finite length string
>
MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> I think the problem is with this bit: '(?:(?:::)?\w+)*'. The '::' is
> optional and also in a repeated group, so if it tries to match, say,
> 'abc' it can try and then backtrack all of these possibilities: abc,
> ab c, a bc, a b c. The longer the string, the mo
