Scott A Crosby wrote:
I'm working on techniques to automatically identify problematic regular expressions where carefully chosen inputs can cause a matcher to run for a long time.
I need testcases, so I'm looking for Python software that that is widely used and also uses lots of regular expressions. Can anyone offer any suggestions of what I should look at? I'm also looking for Perl software.
Thanks
Scott, this is the wrong place to be asking this. Python-dev is used to discuss the development of the Python language. A better place to look for an answer to your question is on comp.lang.python (which can also be reached through python-list@python.org ). But, to just go ahead an answer your question, the Python standard library has several places where regexes are used. You can search for ``import re`` or ``from re import`` to find modules that use regexes. -Brett