Hi All,
the following regular expression matching seems to enter in a infinite
loop:
############### #
import re
text = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA)
una '
re.findall('[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9]
*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$', text)
############### ##
No problem with perl with the same expression:
############### ##
$s = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA) una
';
$s =~ /[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9]*[A-
Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$/;
print $1;
############### ##
I've python 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.
any idea?
Thanks!
--
Kirk
9  1948 
On 25 Juni, 17:20, Kirk <nore...@yahoo. comwrote:
Hi All,
the following regular expression matching seems to enter in a infinite
loop:
############### #
import re
text = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA)
una '
re.findall('[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9]
*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$', text)
############### ##
No problem with perl with the same expression:
############### ##
$s = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA) una
';
$s =~ /[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9]*[A-
Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$/;
print $1;
############### ##
I've python 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.
any idea?
Thanks!
--
Kirk
what are you trying to do?
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Subject: Freeze problem with Regular Expression
Hi All,
the following regular expression matching seems to enter in a infinite
loop:
############### #
import re
text = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA)
una '
re.findall('[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-
z]*\s*(?:[0-9]
*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$', text)
############### ##
No problem with perl with the same expression:
############### ##
$s = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA)
una
';
$s =~ /[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-
9]*[A-
Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$/;
print $1;
############### ##
I've python 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.
any idea?
Thanks!
It locks up on 2.5.2 on windows also. Probably too much recursion going
on.
What's with the |'s in [0-9|a-z|\-]? The '|' is a character not an 'or'
operator. I think you meant to say either '[0-9a-z\-]' or '[0-9a-z\-|]'
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Le Wednesday 25 June 2008 18:40:08 cirfu, vous avez écrit*:
On 25 Juni, 17:20, Kirk <nore...@yahoo. comwrote:
Hi All,
the following regular expression matching seems to enter in a infinite
loop:
############### #
import re
text = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA)
una '
re.findall('[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9
] *[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$', text)
############### ##
No problem with perl with the same expression:
############### ##
$s = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA) una
';
$s =~ /[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9]*[A-
Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$/;
print $1;
############### ##
I've python 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.
any idea?
Thanks!
--
Kirk
what are you trying to do?
This is indeed the good question.
Whatever the implementation/language is, something like that can work with
happiness, but I doubt you'll find one to tell you if it *should* work or if
it shouldn't, my brain-embedded parser is doing some infinite loop too...
That said, "[0-9|a-z|\-]" is by itself strange, pipe (|) between square
brackets is the character '|', so there is no reason for it to appears twice.
Very complicated regexps are always evil, and a two or three stage filtering
is likely to do the job with good, or at least better, readability.
But once more, what are you trying to do ? This is not even clear that regexp
matching is the best tool for it.
--
_____________
Maric Michaud
On Jun 26, 1:20 am, Kirk <nore...@yahoo. comwrote:
Hi All,
the following regular expression matching seems to enter in a infinite
loop:
############### #
import re
text = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA)
una '
re.findall('[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9]
*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$', text)
############### ##
[expletives deleted]
>
I've python 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.
any idea?
Several problems:
(1) lose the vertical bars (as advised by others)
(2) ALWAYS use a raw string for regexes; your \s* will match on lower-
case 's', not on spaces
(3) why are you using findall on a pattern that ends in "$"?
(4) using non-verbose regexes of that length means you haven't got a
petrol drum's hope in hell of understanding what's going on
(5) too many variable-length patterns, will take a finite (but very
long) time to evaluate
(6) as remarked by others, you haven't said what you are trying to do;
what it actually is doing doesn't look sensible (see below).
Following code is after fixing problems 1,2,3,4:
C:\junk>type infinitere.py
import re
text = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA)
una '
regex0 = r"""
[^A-Z0-9]* # match leading space
(
(?:
[0-9]* # match nothing
[A-Z]+ # match "MSX"
[0-9a-z\-]* # match nothing
)+ # match "MSX"
\s* # match " "
[a-z]* # match nothing
\s* # match nothing
(?:
[0-9]*
[A-Z]+
[0-9a-z\-]*
\s*
)* # match "INTERNATIO NAL HOLDINGS ITALIA "
)
([^A-Z]*) # match "srl (di sequito "
"""
regex1 = regex0 + "$"
for rxno, rx in enumerate([regex0, regex1]):
mobj = re.compile(rx, re.VERBOSE).mat ch(text)
if mobj:
print rxno, mobj.groups()
else:
print rxno, "failed"
C:\junk>infinit ere.py
0 ('MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA ', 'srl (di seguito ')
### taking a long time, interrupted
HTH,
John
On Jun 26, 8:29*am, John Machin <sjmac...@lexic on.netwrote:
(2) ALWAYS use a raw string for regexes; your \s* will match on lower-
case 's', not on spaces
and should have written:
(2) ALWAYS use a raw string for regexes. <<<=== Big fat full stop
aka period.
but he was at the time only half-way through the first cup of coffee
for the day :-)
On 25 Jun 2008 15:20:04 GMT, Kirk <no*****@yahoo. comwrote:
Hi All,
the following regular expression matching seems to enter in a infinite
loop:
############### #
import re
text = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA)
una '
re.findall('[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9]
*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$', text)
############### ##
No problem with perl with the same expression:
############### ##
$s = ' MSX INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS ITALIA srl (di seguito MSX ITALIA) una
';
$s =~ /[^A-Z|0-9]*((?:[0-9]*[A-Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*)+\s*[a-z]*\s*(?:[0-9]*[A-
Z]+[0-9|a-z|\-]*\s*)*)([^A-Z]*)$/;
print $1;
############### ##
I've python 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 8.04.
any idea?
If it will help some smarter person identify the problem, it can
be simplified to this:
re.findall('[^X]*((?:0*X+0*)+\s *a*\s*(?:0*X+0* \s*)*)([^X]*)$',
"XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXX (X" )
This doesn't actually hang, it just takes a long time. The
time taken increases quickly as the chain of X's gets longer.
HTH
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:29:38 -0700, John Machin wrote:
Several problems:
Ciao John (and All partecipating in this thread),
first of all I'm sorry for the delay but I was out for business.
(1) lose the vertical bars (as advised by others) (2) ALWAYS use a raw
string for regexes; your \s* will match on lower- case 's', not on
spaces
right! thanks!
(3) why are you using findall on a pattern that ends in "$"?
Yes, you are right, I started with a different need and then it changed
over time...
(6) as remarked by others, you haven't said what you are trying to do;
I reply here to all of you about such point: that's not important,
although I appreciate very much your suggestions!
My point was 'something that works in Perl, has problems in Python'.
In respect to this, I thank Peter for his analysis.
Probably Perl has a different pattern matching algorithm.
Thanks again to all of you!
Bye!
--
Kirk
On Jul 1, 12:45 am, Kirk <nore...@yahoo. comwrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:29:38 -0700, John Machin wrote:
Several problems:
Ciao John (and All partecipating in this thread),
first of all I'm sorry for the delay but I was out for business.
(1) lose the vertical bars (as advised by others) (2) ALWAYS use a raw
string for regexes; your \s* will match on lower- case 's', not on
spaces
right! thanks!
(3) why are you using findall on a pattern that ends in "$"?
Yes, you are right, I started with a different need and then it changed
over time...
(6) as remarked by others, you haven't said what you are trying to do;
I reply here to all of you about such point: that's not important,
although I appreciate very much your suggestions!
My point was 'something that works in Perl, has problems in Python'.
It *is* important; our point was 'you didn't define "works", and it
was near-impossible (without transcribing your regex into verbose
mode) to guess at what you suppose it might do sometimes'.
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:43:22 -0700, John Machin wrote:
>I reply here to all of you about such point: that's not important,
although I appreciate very much your suggestions! My point was
'something that works in Perl, has problems in Python'.
It *is* important; our point was 'you didn't define "works", and it was
ok...
near-impossible (without transcribing your regex into verbose mode) to
guess at what you suppose it might do sometimes'.
fine: it's supposed to terminate! :-)
Do you think that hanging is an *admissible* behavior? Couldn't we learn
something from Perl implementation?
This is my point.
Bye
--
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