On Apr 16, 10:57 am, prueba...@latinmail.com wrote: > Another interesting task for those that are looking for some > interesting problem: > I inherited some rule system that checks for programmers program > outputs that to be ported: given some simple rules and the values it > has to determine if the program is still working correctly and give > the details of what the values are. If you have a better idea of how > to do this kind of parsing please chime in. I am using tokenize but > that might be more complex than it needs to be. This is what I have > come up so far: > > rules=[ > '( A - B ) = 0', > '(A + B + C + D + E + F + G + H + I) = J', > '(A + B + C + D + E + F + G + H) = I', > '(A + B + C + D + E + F) = G', > '(A + B + C + D + E) = (F + G + H + I + J)', > '(A + B + C + D + E) = (F + G + H + I)', > '(A + B + C + D + E) = F', > '(A + B + C + D) = (E + F + G + H)', > '(A + B + C) = (D + E + F)', > '(A + B) = (C + D + E + F)', > '(A + B) = (C + D)', > '(A + B) = (C - D + E - F - G + H + I + J)', > '(A + B) = C', > '(A + B) = 0', > '(A+B+C+D+E) = (F+G+H+I+J)', > '(A+B+C+D) = (E+F+G+H)', > '(A+B+C+D)=(E+F+G+H)', > '(A+B+C)=(D+E+F)', > '(A+B)=(C+D)', > '(A+B)=C', > '(A-B)=C', > '(A/(B+C))', > '(G + H) = I', > '-0.99 LE ((A+B+C)-(D+E+F+G)) LE 0.99', > '-0.99 LE (A-(B+C)) LE 0.99', > '-1000.00 LE A LE 0.00', snip > def main(): > for cur_rule in rules[20:26]: > tokens=get_tokens(cur_rule) > normal=replace_comps(tokens,COMP_REPLACERS) > subst=replace_names(normal,vars_) > groups=split_seccions(subst,COMP_REPLACERS.values()) > rep=all_seccions(groups) > rep_out=''.join(x[0]+x[1] for x in rep) > calc=calc_seccions(rep) > calc_out=''.join(x[0]+x[1] for x in calc) > deltas=calc_deltas(calc) > result=eval(calc_out,{},{}) snip
You are using 'eval' which isn't safe if its inputs are dangerous. If you are controlling the inputs, you might be interested in the optional arguments to 'eval'. >>> a= '-1000.00 < A < 0.00' >>> eval( a, { 'A': -100 } ) True >>> eval( a, { 'A': -1000 } ) False The syntax is slightly different for Python 2. For the replacement of 'LE', I assume you require spaces on both sides. >>> a= '-1000.00 LE A LE 0.00' >>> b= a.replace( ' LE ', ' <= ' ) >>> b '-1000.00 <= A <= 0.00' >>> eval( b, { 'A': -1000 } ) True >>> eval( b, { 'A': -1001 } ) False If you need something more flexible, the 'ast' module gives you more options. The string has to be a valid Python module to start with. FYI, have you checked order of precedence in your custom rule set to match Python's? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list