Ah - thanks for the correction! I missed the extra grouping and the
extra spacing ... doh! Sorry about the HTML-formatted e-mail ...
Thanks also for the pyparsing variant as well - I didn't know the
module existed before!
Andrew
On 11/1/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Wu
Kent Johnson wrote:
> You might want to look at doing this with pyparsing, I think it will
> make it easier to get the data out vs just recognizing the correct pattern.
Here is a pyparsing version that correctly recognizes all of your
patterns and returns a (possibly nested) Python list in case
Andrew Wu wrote:
>pattern3 = '''
> ^{
> (
> %s
> | {%s} # Possible to have 1 level of nested lists
> ,?)* # Items are comma-delimited, except for the last item
> }$
>''' % (pattern2, pattern2)
The above doesn't allow comma after the first instance
Hi,
I'm writing utilities to handle return values from AppleScript in python and
one of the steps is recognizing when a returned value from an AppleScript
execution (via popen and osascript) represents a list (in AppleScript) or
not. For the most part I think I have the correct matching pattern,
