On 13 Nov 2012, at 9:04 AM, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> seems a problem with the default regex checking for args.... Let's wait for
> Jonathan
>
> >>> import re
> >>> mymatch = re.compile(r'([\w@ -]+[=.]?)*$')
> >>> mymatch.match('a')
> <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0x02A61020>
> >>> mymatch.match('Abbbbbbbb Lccc - Pddddddd GA Deeeeee (ffff ffff A).pdf')
>
> endless loop of backtracing regex
I don't have a quick fix. The easy solutions involve re elements not available
in Python re (or at least not until 3.1).
A workaround would be to make the pattern a little more lenient: [\w@ -=.]+
If we really want to exclude successive dots or equals, we could make a
separate check for that.
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