Get named groups from a regular expression
Peter Otten
__peter__ at web.de
Tue Jul 1 15:00:53 EDT 2014
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
>> Easy, just write a regular expression to parse regular expressions ;)
>
> Hmm, is that even possible? AIUI you can't make a regex that correctly
> parses nested tokens, and named groups can definitely be nested.
Hmm, it was a joke.
For a limited number of nestings you should be able to cook something up; I
think Python allows up to 100 groups, so there is an upper limit of nesting
levels. You might need a regex implementation that allows more than 100
groups to parse your regex-parsing regex though...
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