Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'problem:': 0.07; 'remaining': 0.07; 'string': 0.09; 'delimited': 0.09; 'false.': 0.09; 'line:': 0.09; 'lines.': 0.09; 'pgp': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python- list': 0.11; 'def': 0.12; '\'"\'),': 0.16; "'\\n')": 0.16; '(it': 0.16; 'delimiter': 0.16; 'pairs': 0.16; 'quoted': 0.16; 'to:addr:python.list': 0.16; 'to:addr:tim.thechases.com': 0.16; 'to:name:tim chase': 0.16; 'tuple': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'appears': 0.22; 'proposed': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'text,': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'define': 0.26; 'possibly': 0.26; 'this:': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'function': 0.29; 'testing': 0.29; 'thus': 0.29; 'tim': 0.29; 'chase': 0.31; 'run': 0.32; 'comment': 0.34; "i'd": 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'false': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.38; 'quote': 0.39; 'such': 0.63; 'happen': 0.63; 'more': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'within': 0.65; 'determine': 0.67 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:18:52 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.python To: Tim Chase Subject: Re: Quotation Ugliness References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:18:52 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: sAQ1IqLW051315 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Message-ID: Lines: 51 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1416964940 news.xs4all.nl 2874 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:52394 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:81536 On 11/25/2014 06:40 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2014-11-25 18:18, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> A problem for your consideration: >> >> We are given a tuple of delimiter string pairs to quote or comment >> text, possibly over multiple lines. Something like this: >> >> delims = (('"', '"'), ("'", "'"), ('#', '\n'), ("\*", "*\), >> ('\\', '\n') ...) >> >> These may be nested. >> >> Here's the problem: Determine is the string S appears *outside* or >> *inside* any such quotation. > > > You would have to define what should happen in a case where you have > more than one single/double-quote delimited items on the same line: > > do("this", "and", "that") Each of them is considered quoted and thus if S appears within any of them it is "inside". > > should it return true or false when testing for 'this", "and", > "that'? (it is within double-quotes) False. > > 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. > > It would also help to have a proposed function signature for the > functionality you want. Something like > > def inside_quote(s, corpus, delims=delims): I'd prefer: def quoted (s, corpus, delims=delims, domain=outside) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/