> Fair enough. To help you understand the method I used, I'll give you > this hint. It's true that regex on works on strings. However, is there > any way to convert arbitrarily complex data structures to string > representations? You don't need to be an experienced Python user to > answer to this ;)
As Paddy noted before, your solution has a problem, Regexes can't match nested parenthesis, so I think your method will have a problem with nested lists, unless your actual inputs are much simpler than the general case. Eli -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list