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At least intuitively it seems to me that 8-shaped paths would be extremely unlikely and unstable. Wikipedia describes two types of orbits:
So the planet can orbit both stars elliptically, or just one of them - but the latter can be the case only when the other star is a dwarf that can't affect the planet too much.