[issue15077] Regexp match goes into infinite loop

[Matthew Barnett]

Matthew Barnett <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> added the comment:

It's not a bug, it's a pathological regex (i.e. it causes catastrophic backtracking).

It also works correctly in the "regex" module.

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