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Find all operators at the current level, i.e. not in nested parentheses. Then, split the string into components using these operators. For each component, add the function name (e.g. sum( ) as prefix and close the parenthesis at the end ) Pass the whole string to the next recursion.
All I need is to check, using python, if a string is a valid math expression or not.
For simplicity let's say I just need + - * / operators (+ - as unary too) with numbers and nested parenthesis. I add also simple variable names for completeness.
So I can test this way:
test("-3 * (2 + 1)") #valid
test("-3 * ") #NOT valid
test("v1 + v2") #valid
test("v2 - 2v") #NOT valid ("2v" not a valid variable name)
I tried pyparsing but just trying the example: "simple algebraic expression parser, that performs +,-,*,/ and ^ arithmetic operations" I get passed invalid code and also trying to fix it I always get wrong syntaxes being parsed without raising Exceptions
just try:
>>>test('9', 9)
9 qwerty = 9.0 ['9'] => ['9']
>>>test('9 qwerty', 9)
9 qwerty = 9.0 ['9'] => ['9']
both test pass... o_O
Any advice?
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