Brett Cannon added the comment: I am not convinced this an infinite loop but more of a poor-performing regex over a large string.
You have three greedy quantifiers in that regex. That means the first one is going to consume the entire file, and then you begin back-off looking for '://'. Once that is found you consume the rest of the string again and then back off looking for ':'. Then the rest of the string is consumed and then back-off begins for '@' which should fail since I can't find a single instance of '@'. But that is a lot of backing off over a large string which has a ton of partial matches before failure occurs when looking for the '@'. It looks like you are trying to match a URL, which means you probably want something more specific than '.' for those greedy quantifiers. Closing as invalid. ---------- assignee: -> brett.cannon nosy: +brett.cannon resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1217> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
