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I've run into a strange problem where pybtex just completely hangs
when trying to compile a certain bibtex entry.  I've included a super
simple tex file and a bibtex file that includes a single entry that
causes this failure.  Putting both of these files in the same
directory and running the following commands will cause the hang:

0 $ pdflatex foo
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./foo.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
No file foo.aux.

LaTeX Warning: Citation `2010PhRvD..81j2001A' on page 1 undefined on input line
 5.

No file foo.bbl.
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./foo.aux)

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.

 )</usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmbx12.pfb></usr/sha
re/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb>
Output written on foo.pdf (1 page, 17573 bytes).
Transcript written on foo.log.
0 $ pybtex foo

Here pybtex just hangs and never returns, while consuming a
substantial amount of cpu cycles.

The entry also happens to cause bibtex and bibtex8 to fail because it
exceeds the field character limit:

1 $ bibtex8 foo
The 8-bit codepage and sorting file: 88591lat.csf
The top-level auxiliary file: foo.aux
The style file: plain.bst
Database file #1: foo.bib
Your field is more than 10000 characters---line 144 of file foo.bib
 :  {Scott}, J. and {S
 :                    cott}, S.~M. and {Searle}, A.~C. and {Seifert}, F. and
I'm skipping whatever remains of this entry
Warning--to sort, need author or key in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--empty author in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--empty title in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--empty journal in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
Warning--empty year in 2010PhRvD..81j2001A
(There was 1 error message)
2 $ 

I was really hoping pybtex wouldn't be susceptible to this stupid bug!
How am I the only one to site long author list papers!!!

Anyway, thanks for maintaining!

jamie.

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   author = {{Abadie}, J. and {Abbott}, B.~P. and {Abbott}, R. and {Accadia}, 
T. and 
        {Acernese}, F. and {Adhikari}, R. and {Ajith}, P. and {Allen}, B. and 
        {Allen}, G. and {Amador Ceron}, E. and {Amin}, R.~S. and {Anderson}, 
S.~B. and 
        {Anderson}, W.~G. and {Antonucci}, F. and {Arain}, M.~A. and 
        {Araya}, M. and {Arun}, K.~G. and {Aso}, Y. and {Aston}, S. and 
        {Astone}, P. and {Aufmuth}, P. and {Aulbert}, C. and {Babak}, S. and 
        {Baker}, P. and {Ballardin}, G. and {Ballmer}, S. and {Barker}, D. and 
        {Barone}, F. and {Barr}, B. and {Barriga}, P. and {Barsotti}, L. and 
        {Barsuglia}, M. and {Barton}, M.~A. and {Bartos}, I. and {Bassiri}, R. 
and 
        {Bastarrika}, M. and {Bauer}, T.~S. and {Behnke}, B. and {Beker}, M.~G. 
and 
        {Belletoile}, A. and {Benacquista}, M. and {Betzwieser}, J. and 
        {Beyersdorf}, P.~T. and {Bigotta}, S. and {Bilenko}, I.~A. and 
        {Billingsley}, G. and {Birindelli}, S. and {Biswas}, R. and 
        {Bizouard}, M.~A. and {Black}, E. and {Blackburn}, J.~K. and 
        {Blackburn}, L. and {Blair}, D. and {Bland}, B. and {Blom}, M. and 
        {Boccara}, C. and {Bock}, O. and {Bodiya}, T.~P. and {Bondarescu}, R. 
and 
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        {Born}, M. and {Bose}, S. and {Bosi}, L. and {Bouhou}, B. and 
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V.~B. and 
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and 
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A.~F. and 
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{Bullington}, A. and 
        {Bulten}, H.~J. and {Buonanno}, A. and {Burmeister}, O. and 
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and 
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S.~S.~Y. and 
        {Chung}, C.~T.~Y. and {Clark}, D. and {Clark}, J. and {Clayton}, J.~H. 
and 
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{J.-P.} and 
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A. and 
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and 
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and 
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and 
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G. and 
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A.~M. and 
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and 
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V. and 
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A. and 
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and 
        {Martelli}, F. and {Martin}, I.~W. and {Martin}, R.~M. and {Marx}, 
J.~N. and 
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A. and 
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B.~F. and 
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and 
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        },
    title = "{All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint 
LIGO-GEO-Virgo run}",
  journal = {\prd},
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
   eprint = {1002.1036},
 primaryClass = "gr-qc",
 keywords = {Gravitational wave detectors and experiments, Data analysis: 
algorithms and implementation; data management, Relativity and gravitation, 
Gravitational radiation, magnetic fields, and other observations},
     year = 2010,
    month = may,
   volume = 81,
   number = 10,
    pages = {102001-+},
 abstract = "{We present results from an all-sky search for unmodeled
gravitational-wave bursts in the data collected by the LIGO, GEO 600 and
Virgo detectors between November 2006 and October 2007. The search is
performed by three different analysis algorithms over the frequency band
50-6000 Hz. Data are analyzed for times with at least two of the
four LIGO-Virgo detectors in coincident operation, with a total live
time of 266 days. No events produced by the search algorithms survive
the selection cuts. We set a frequentist upper limit on the rate of
gravitational-wave bursts impinging on our network of detectors. When
combined with the previous LIGO search of the data collected between
November 2005 and November 2006, the upper limit on the rate of
detectable gravitational-wave bursts in the 64-2048 Hz band is 2.0
events per year at 90\% confidence. We also present event rate versus
strength exclusion plots for several types of plausible burst waveforms.
The sensitivity of the combined search is expressed in terms of the
root-sum-squared strain amplitude for a variety of simulated waveforms
and lies in the range 6{\times}10^{-22}Hz^{-1/2} to
2{\times}10^{-20}Hz^{-1/2}. This is the first untriggered
burst search to use data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors together, and
the most sensitive untriggered burst search performed so far.
}",
      doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.81.102001},
   adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010PhRvD..81j2001A},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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