Matthew Barnett added the comment: The problem is with the "(\w+\s*)+". \s* can match an empty string, so when matching a word it's like "(\w+)+".
If you have n letters, there are 2**n ways it could match, and if what follows never matches, it'll try all of them. It _will_ finish, eventually... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23541> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
