Matthew Barnett added the comment: Your regex is a pathological case: it suffers from catastrophic backtracking and can take a long time to finish.
The other problem is that the re module never releases the GIL, so while it's performing the search in the low-level C code, other Python threads don't get a chance to run. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24555> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
