Google and Python code

Justin February 22, 2006 Reply

Google code is icky :-)
I'd write it as so, optionally using .append() and ''.join()... and .find('"')

def rqs(sexp, preserve_backslashes=False):
retval = ''
i=0
while sexp[i] != '"':
i += 1
i += 1
while sexp[i] != '"':
c = sexp[i]
if c != '\\' or preserve_backslashes:
retval +=c
i += 1

return (i, retval)
their version doesn't seem to work right when the input ends in \", unless it isn't supposed to :-)

minimally, the
retval += sexp[i]
else:
retval += sexp[i]

is redundant...

(select post+right click+view selection source will fix indentation :-)