Christian Tismer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Hengel wrote: > >> I would suggest that all whitespace (except within string literals) > >> should be ignored, as well. > > > Good point, but i assume that is not possible with regular expressions. > > No, but a trivial task using the compiler.
Actually, the tokenize module of the standard library is plenty for this (and any other merely lexical-level task). > they should have taken this as a second challenge :-) -- chris I guess there can be more challenges, particularly because I don't think having the prize is really that important -- one does it for fun and kudos (a nicely designed, color-printed certificate of victory, suitable for framing and displaying prominently, would be better, if there are funds to make it, than a keyboard which one might not use...;-). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
