Re: splitting words with brackets

>>> r = re.compile(r'(?:\([^\)]*\)|\[[^\]]*\]|\S)+')
>>> r.findall(s)
['(a c)b(c d)', 'e']

Ah, it's exactly what I want! I thought the left and right sides of "|" are equal, but it is not true.

In theory, they *should* be equal. I was baffled by the nonparity
of the situation. You *should" be able to swap the two sides of the "|" and have it treated the same. Yet, when I tried it with the above regexp, putting the \S first, it seemed to choke and give different results. I'd love to know why.

Thank you and Simon for your kindly help!

My pleasure. A nice diversion from swatting spammers and getting our network back up and running today. I had hoped to actually get something productive done (i.e. writing some python code) rather than putting out fires. Sigh.

-tkc






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