Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Daneliuk Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Quotation Ugliness Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:00:39 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <54756C87.8090504@tundraware.com> References: <54752A7C.2060800@tundraware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d887b3e675279b69468e57e74ea1dcb8"; logging-data="22217"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/yLcm6qlNcqpat9tk32g/Lo0M/lCmuNEk=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:pJI319irRQRl2so9xur0ocAArHg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:81543 On 11/25/2014 07:32 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >>> And what should happen with mismatched quotes? >>> >>> do("th/*is", "and", "th*/at") >> >> >> Match pairs as usual, and let the remaining unterminated quote run on. > > Wait, what? Where's an unterminated quote? I can imagine two ways of > reading this: one the way most programming languages would interpret > it (the /* and */ are both simply part of their respective strings, > and have no significance), and the "anything nests in anything" way, > in which the quotation marks inside /* */ are effectively inverted; > neither of those leaves an unterminated quote. > > ChrisA > But I am not designing a new programming language. I am doing straight up text processing. I want to know all the instances of S when it is quoted or not. In my particular application, recovering from a failure of syntax like this isn't important. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/