[issue40496] re.findall() takes a long time (100% cup usage) on Python 3.6.10
Rémi Lapeyre
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Mon May 4 06:10:21 EDT 2020
Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lapeyre at henki.fr> added the comment:
I don't think this is a deadlock rather it is certainly related to the number of '*' there is in your pattern, the regexp has to search an exponentially growing number of patterns.
You could try a simple pattern to match your attribute and it should be faster.
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nosy: +remi.lapeyre
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