On Jun 20, 1:45 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.
bearophile was talking about matching lists and tuples, not matching strings. Python's regular expression module works with characters in strings, but the same approach can be applied to items in lists and tuples. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
