re bug

[Michael Hoffman]

Klaus Neuner wrote:

> it seems that there is a bug in the re module. Below there is a sample
> program that illustrates it.(Sorry for its length. I was not able to
> write a simpler regex that produced the same effect.)

It might help if you told us what this is supposed to do in real terms...

> Is there perhaps a way to tell Python something like 
> 
> "Try the search for 5 minutes. If you don't find anything, continue."

Yes. Use signal.alarm(). See:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/node304.html
-- 
Michael Hoffman