[Python-Dev] Re: Decorators: vertical bar syntax

[Fredrik Lundh]

David Eppstein wrote:

>> shouldn't a simple parenthesis counter suffice?  you have to count
>> parens in many cases anyway (e.g. to find function bodies).
>
> I think it would suffice (with some care to ignore parens in comments
> and strings, and assuming there aren't any mismatches), but counting is
> not something you can do in a regexp.

no, but adding a single integer register to the scanning loop isn't
that much work.

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