[issue11665] Regexp findall freezes
Alex Gaynor
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Mar 24 23:59:04 CET 2011
Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> added the comment:
Yes, this is known as catastrophic backtracking, and there isn't really a solution for it, some regexps can't be efficiently matched.
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