Re: a little parsing challenge ☺

[Xah Lee]

On Jul 18, 10:12 am, Billy Mays
<81282ed9a88799d21e77957df2d84bd6514d9... at myhashismyemail.com> wrote:
> On 07/17/2011 03:47 AM,XahLee wrote:
>
> > 2011-07-16
>
> I gave it a shot.  It doesn't do any of the Unicode delims, because
> let's face it, Unicode is for goobers.
>
> import sys, os
>
> pairs = {'}':'{', ')':'(', ']':'[', '"':'"', "'":"'", '>':'<'}
> valid = set( v for pair in pairs.items() for v in pair )
>
> for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(sys.argv[1]):
>      for name in filenames:
>          stack = [' ']
>          with open(os.path.join(dirpath, name), 'rb') as f:
>              chars = (c for line in f for c in line if c in valid)
>              for c in chars:
>                  if c in pairs and stack[-1] == pairs[c]:
>                      stack.pop()
>                  else:
>                      stack.append(c)
>          print ("Good" if len(stack) == 1 else "Bad") + ': %s' % name
>
> --
> Bill

as Ian Kelly mentioned, your script fail because it doesn't report the
position or line/column number of  first mismatched bracket. This is
rather significant part to this small problem. Avoiding unicode also
lessen the value of this exercise, because handling unicode in python
isn't trivial, at least with respect to this small exercise.

I added other unicode brackets to your list of brackets, but it seems
your code still fail to catch a file that has mismatched curly quotes.
(e.g. http://xahlee.org/p/time_machine/tm-ch04.html )

LOL Billy.

 Xah