Hi all, I'm having a weird problem with a regular expression (tested in 2.6 and 3.0):
Basically, any of these: _re_comments = re.compile(r'^(([^\\]+|\\.|"([^"\\]+|\\.)*")*)#.*$') _re_comments = re.compile(r'^(([^#]+|\\.|"([^"\\]+|\\.)*")*)#.*$') _re_comments = re.compile(r'^(([^"]+|\\.|"([^"\\]+|\\.)*")*)#.*$') followed by for example, line = r'~/.[m]ozilla/firefox/*.default/chrome' print(_re_comments.sub(r'\1', line)) ...hangs the interpreter. For reference, if the first command had been _re_comments = re.compile(r'^(([^z]+|\\.|"([^"\\]+|\\.)*")*)#.*$') (off by one character z) it works fine, and all the equivalent operations work in sed and awk. Am I missing something about Python RE's? -David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
