Hi, i'd like to test if an input string starts with a python expression and also where that expression ends. An example:
a_func(3*7, '''abc''') +5 pls some more The first part until (inclusive) the 5 should be found as an expression and the length of that string should also be detected. Background is that i want to embed some python expressions in a text and i want to evaluate them later. It is possible that the embedded expressions span several lines. Alternatively, is it possible to define a start- and an end-marker that define the embedded expression and find the expression using a regular expression? If the expression contains strings, these strings could contain the end-marker which should not be found inside strings. Example: start: < end: > < some_func(r">")> Can anybody tell me how to do this best? Can i do this using just modules from the python library? Thanks for any hints, Torsten. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
