how to determine an 'open' string?

[John La Rooy]

On Thu, 16 May 2002 18:59:17 +0200
holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> wrote:


> 
> i think that's it. very nice! 
> 
> i might try to shorten it a bit, though :-)
> 
> thanks,
> 
>     holger
> 
> 

is this short enough for you?

import re

def quoteopen(s):
    quot=re.compile("(?P<quot>\"\"\"|'''|\"|').*?(?P=quot)")
    s=quot.sub("",s)
    return "'" in s or '"' in s

John