Python support for "irregular" expressions

Posted Feb 26, 2022 7:22 UTC (Sat) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Python support for "irregular" expressions by marcH
Parent article: Python support for regular expressions

> Although "timeouts" look more like a security fix than an advanced feature.

More of a lesson everyone keeps relearning the hard way; PHP got it right 25 years ago, and it stings every time another system for processing arbitrary code+data on the fly gets it wrong (regex, SQL, shaders, CSS, ...)

Python support for "irregular" expressions

Posted Feb 27, 2022 21:06 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

"Regular expressions" a.k.a: how to make it impossible to sanitize inputs.