> Fair enough. To help you understand the method I used, I'll give you
> this hint. It's true that regex on works on strings. However, is there
> any way to convert arbitrarily complex data structures to string
> representations? You don't need to be an experienced Python user to
> answer to this ;
On Jun 19, 9:03 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 20, 10:45 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Jun 17, 1:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > Kirk Strauser:
>
> > > > Hint: recursion. Your general algorithm will be something like:
>
> > > Another solution is to use
On Jun 20, 1:45 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 1:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Kirk Strauser:
>
> > > Hint: recursion. Your general algorithm will be something like:
>
> > Another solution is to use a better (different) language, that has
> > built-in pattern matching, o
On Jun 20, 1:44 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your help. Those weren't quite what I was looking for, but
> I ended up figuring it out on my own. Turns out you can actually
> search nested Python lists using simple regular expressions.
Strange?
How do you match nested '[' ... ']
On Jun 20, 10:45 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 17, 1:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Kirk Strauser:
>
> > > Hint: recursion. Your general algorithm will be something like:
>
> > Another solution is to use a better (different) language, that has
> > built-in pattern matching,
On Jun 17, 1:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kirk Strauser:
>
> > Hint: recursion. Your general algorithm will be something like:
>
> Another solution is to use a better (different) language, that has
> built-in pattern matching, or allows to create one.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
Btw, Python's stdl
Thanks for your help. Those weren't quite what I was looking for, but
I ended up figuring it out on my own. Turns out you can actually
search nested Python lists using simple regular expressions.
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Kirk Strauser:
> Hint: recursion. Your general algorithm will be something like:
Another solution is to use a better (different) language, that has
built-in pattern matching, or allows to create one.
Bye,
bearophile
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At 2008-06-17T05:55:52Z, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is anyone aware of any prior work done with searching or matching a
> pattern over nested Python lists? I have this problem where I have a
> list like:
>
> [1, 2, [1, 2, [1, 7], 9, 9], 10]
>
> and I'd like to search for the pattern [1, 2
