Aaron Swartz added the comment: Just a note for those who think this is a purely theoretical issue:
We've been using the python-markdown module on our web app for a while, only to notice the app has been repeatedly going down. After tracking down the culprit, we found that a speech from Hamlet passed to one of the Markdown regular expressions caused this exponential behavior, freezing up the app. ---------- nosy: +aaronsw _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1662581> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com