split hangs

[Aahz Maruch]

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Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?= <jp at ulgo.koti.com.pl> wrote:
>
>My program hangs when running that instruction:
>ourlist=ourregex.split(s)
>I can only kill it, or ctrl+z
>
>ourregex is of course result of re.compile()
>s is a long string
>it works good with other strings, why it hangs with that one?
>how can I fix it? how to find out what is bad?
>how it's possible that split() hangs?
>
>PS. python-1.5.2, Linux

What is the regex?
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