[issue33566] re.findall() dead locked whent the expected ending char not occur until end of string

[Matthew Barnett]

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

You don't give the value of 'newlines', but the problem is probably catastrophic backtracking, not deadlock.

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