[Python-Dev] Re: Decorators: vertical bar syntax (original) (raw)

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Tue Aug 10 09:15:35 CEST 2004

In article <cf9qla$aer$1 at sea.gmane.org>, "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

> I think quoted string recognition in Python is still regular, not > context-free. Anyway, the syntax highlighters in editors that I've used > don't seem to have a problem with it.

shouldn't a simple parenthesis counter suffice? you have to count parens in many cases anyway (e.g. to find function bodies).

I think it would suffice (with some care to ignore parens in comments and strings, and assuming there aren't any mismatches), but counting is not something you can do in a regexp.

-- David Eppstein Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/

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