A problem for your consideration: We are given a tuple of delimiter string pairs to quote or comment text, possibly over multiple lines. Something like this:
delims = (('"', '"'), ("'", "'"), ('#', '\n'), ("\*", "*\), ('\\', '\n') ...) These may be nested. Here's the problem: Determine is the string S appears *outside* or *inside* any such quotation. I know lots of ugly/complicated/heavyweight ways to solve this, but I'm wondering if any of you geniuses have a pythonic/elegant/short algo that solves this. TIA, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list