[issue23066] re.match hang

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Please go to python-list to get help about writing re expressions for parsing. The example regexp does not technically hang, it is just exploring a very large set of alternatives, none of which match (because the trailing '()' doesn't match anything). -

[issue23066] re.match hang

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[issue23066] re.match hang

New submission from Jie Yin: The following expression hang in 2.7.9 for the module re: re.match('^([a-zA-Z0-9]+|[\\s]+|[,.])+$', 'Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc ()') -- components: Interpreter Core messages: 232746 nosy: writalnaie priority: normal severity: normal status: o