John Machin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try an iterative version of checking that () [] and {}
> are balanced and nested appropriately.
Here's how I might approach the more general case:
def balanced(s, parens=("()",)):
'''
Example:
>>> balanced('aAAA(b[bb(c]c))')
True
>>> balanced('aAAA(b[bb(c]c))', parens=("()", "[]"))
False
'''
s = re.sub("[^%s]+" % re.escape("".join(parens)), "", s)
for i in range(len(s)/2):
for p in parens:
s = s.replace(p, "")
return not s
For short strings this is obviously slower than your 'iterative' function,
but the run time mostly depends on the number of pairs of parentheses
rather than the total length of the string, so for example it starts
winning on a string with 2 pairs of parentheses about 75 characters long.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
