On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Pratap Chakravarthy <[email protected]> wrote: >> *Really?* I believe that the ball is currently in your court. >> It was *your* regex that was broken, and badly, if I may >> add. > > By saying broken, do you mean that this regex > r'Searching for OPUSH on([^\.\n\r]+)|Channel:([^\r\n]*)' > follows the pathological case of exponential complexity ? [...]
No, it doesn't: The exponential complexity was a general crib, based on your statement. Again, please do not take it personally, but the above is just *broken* and does not even try, IMHO. For someone who claims to be an advocate for regexs, this is "not even wong": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong A MAC address is pretty well-specified, but you do not even try, when at least the OP did. Again, forgive me, but this smells of intellectual laziness to me. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
