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Author mrabarnett
Recipients alex, complex, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, vstinner
Date 2011-03-25.16:36:09
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Message-id <1301070971.2.0.203714516611.issue11665@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Alex is correct.

This part:

    [^<>]*

can match an empty string, and it's nested with a repeated group. It stalls, repeatedly matching an empty string.

Incidentally, my regex implementation (available on PyPI) returns [].
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