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GeezerVison is showing github.com — [3.14] gh-98820: Fix quadratic time in csv.Sniffer for quoted fields (GH-154867) by miss-islington · Pull Request #155117 · python/cpython

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@miss-islington miss-islington commented Aug 3, 2026 •
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The regular expressions which look for a quoted field matched its body
lazily, so a closing quote which was not followed by a delimiter was
retried with every following quote, to the end of the sample. Match
the body possessively instead: it ends at the first quote which is not
doubled, as it does for a reader.
(cherry picked from commit 476fb09)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka [email protected]
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) [email protected]

  • Issue: csv.Sniffer().sniff() Hangs on Single-Column Data #98820

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@serhiy-storchaka @claude @miss-islington
[3.15] pythongh-98820: Fix quadratic time in csv.Sniffer for quoted f…
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…ields (pythonGH-154867)

The regular expressions which look for a quoted field matched its body
lazily, so a closing quote which was not followed by a delimiter was
retried with every following quote, to the end of the sample.  Match
the body possessively instead: it ends at the first quote which is not
doubled, as it does for a reader.
(cherry picked from commit 476fb09)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot mentioned this pull request Aug 3, 2026
csv.Sniffer().sniff() Hangs on Single-Column Data #98820
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[3.15] gh-98820: Fix quadratic time in csv.Sniffer for quoted fields #154867
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serhiy-storchaka merged commit 89f29c7 into python:3.14 Aug 4, 2026
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[3.14] pythongh-98820: Fix quadratic time in csv.Sniffer for quoted f…
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…ields (pythonGH-154867) (pythonGH-155117)

The regular expressions which look for a quoted field matched its body
lazily, so a closing quote which was not followed by a delimiter was
retried with every following quote, to the end of the sample.  Match
the body possessively instead: it ends at the first quote which is not
doubled, as it does for a reader.
(cherry picked from commit 476fb09)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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