Found this in pypy!
# Match any flavor of string; /*the terminating quote is optional*/
# so that we're robust in the face of incomplete program text.
_match_stringre = re.compile(r"""
\""" [^"\\]* (?:
(?: \\. | "(?!"") )
[^"\\]*
)*
(?: \""" )?
| " [^"\\\n]* (?: \\. [^"\\\n]* )* "?
| ''' [^'\\]* (?:
(?: \\. | '(?!'') )
[^'\\]*
)*
(?: ''' )?
| ' [^'\\\n]* (?: \\. [^'\\\n]* )* '?
""", re.VERBOSE | re.DOTALL).match
Problem solved.
Ken
Ken Seehart wrote:
I found this:
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/475109/
But it is incorrect in some cases, such as:
*
"foo \" bar"* / (incorrectly matches "foo \")/
*
'''* /(incorrectly matches the second two single quotes)/
*" foo
bar "* / (incorrectly matches quote containing newline/)
Anyone know a regular expression that correctly matches python string
literals?
Thanks in advance,
Ken
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