Python parsing bracketed blocks

Question

What would be the best way in Python to parse out chunks of text contained in matching brackets?

"{ { a } { b } { { { c } } } }" 

should initially return:

[ "{ a } { b } { { { c } } }" ] 

putting that as an input should return:

[ "a", "b", "{ { c } }" ] 

which should return:

[ "{ c }" ]  [ "c" ]  [] 

Answer 1

Or this pyparsing version:

>>> from pyparsing import nestedExpr >>> txt = "{ { a } { b } { { { c } } } }" >>> >>> nestedExpr('{','}').parseString(txt).asList() [[['a'], ['b'], [[['c']]]]] >>>