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Author mrabarnett
Recipients bee13oy, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, r.david.murray
Date 2015-07-03.17:20:29
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Your regex is a pathological case: it suffers from catastrophic backtracking and can take a long time to finish.

The other problem is that the re module never releases the GIL, so while it's performing the search in the low-level C code, other Python threads don't get a chance to run.
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