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+# This was taken from http://python.org/sf/1541697
+# It's not technically a crasher.  It may not even truly be infinite,
+# however, I haven't waited a long time to see the result.  It takes
+# 100% of CPU while running this and should be fixed.
+
+import re
+starttag = re.compile(r'<[a-zA-Z][-_.:a-zA-Z0-9]*\s*('
+        r'\s*([a-zA-Z_][-:.a-zA-Z_0-9]*)(\s*=\s*'
+        r'(\'[^\']*\'|"[^"]*"|[-a-zA-Z0-9./,:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~@]'
+        r'[][\-a-zA-Z0-9./,:;+*%?!&$\(\)_#=~\'"@]*(?=[\s>/<])))?'
+    r')*\s*/?\s*(?=[<>])')
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    foo = '<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse'
+    starttag.match(foo)