On Oct 4, 7:28 am, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, paren matching is a canonical context-sensitive algorithm. Now, > many regex libraries have *some* not-purely-regular features, but I > doubt your going to find anything to match parens in a single regex. > If you want to go all out you can use a parser generator (for python > parser generators, seehttp://python.fyxm.net/topics/parsing.html). > Otherwise, you can go about it the quick-and-dirty way you describe: > scan for matching open and close parens, and ignore things in quotes > and comments. > > -Dan
Dan, thanks for suggesting parser generators. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
