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, or allows to create one. > > > Bye, > > bearophile > > Btw, Python's stdlib includes a regular expression library. I'm not > sure if you're trolling or simply unaware of it, but I've found it > quite adequate for most tasks.
Kindly consider a third possibility: bearophile is an experienced Python user, has not to my knowledge exhibited any troll-like behaviour in the past, and given that you seem to be happy using the re module not on strings but on lists of integers, may have been wondering whether *you* were trolling or just plain confused but just too polite to wonder out loud :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list