Parsing >>>>>>… takes quadratic time and eventually crashes with recursion error · Issue #799 · Python-Markdown/markdown (original) (raw)

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import markdown, timeit num, dur = timeit.Timer(lambda: markdown.markdown(">" * 100)).autorange(); dur / num 0.004344235559692607 num, dur = timeit.Timer(lambda: markdown.markdown(">" * 200)).autorange(); dur / num 0.016907797248859425 num, dur = timeit.Timer(lambda: markdown.markdown(">" * 300)).autorange(); dur / num 0.05682634799741208 markdown.markdown(">" * 331) … RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

Same results in 3.0.1 and master.