The windows python.exe interpreter hangs processing large files.

[gradha at iname.com]

Hi.

I have tried to use some Linux scripts I have under Windows, and the
python.exe ran in a dos Box under Win98 just hangs when it has to
process slightly big text files (over 20 KB). Could it be just because
I use the DOTALL option in regular expressions? Under Linux everything
goes blazing fast, and since everything hangs I don't know what to do
or how to debug it, especially because Windows is not my native work
environment and don't master any tools there.

What can I do to fix this strange behaviour? I am using a Python 2.0
windows release, if that matters.

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 Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz   gradha at terra.es   http://gradha.infierno.org