I'm definitely not a regex master, but what's the *[=.]?* part required for
?
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 7:00:32 PM UTC+1, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
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> On 13 Nov 2012, at 9:04 AM, Niphlod <nip...@gmail.com <javascript:>>
> wrote:
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> 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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