I have a string like:
{'the','dog\'s','bite'}
or maybe:
{'the'}
or sometimes:
{}
[FYI: this is postgresql database "array" field output format]
which I'm trying to parse with the re module.
A single quoted string would, I think, be:
r"\{'([^']|\\')*'\}"
but how do I represent a *sequence* of these separated
by commas? I guess I can artificially tack a comma on the
end of the input string and do:
r"\{('([^']|\\')*',)\}"
but that seems like an ugly hack...
I want to end up with a python array of strings like:
['the', "dog's", 'bite']
Any simple clear way of parsing this in python would be
great; I just assume that "re" is the appropriate technique.
Performance is not an issue.
-- George
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