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 } } } }\"

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Answer 1

Cleaner solution. This will find return the string enclosed in the outermost bracket. If None is returned, there was no match.

def findBrackets( aString ):
   if '{' in aString:
      match = aString.split('{',1)[1]
      open = 1
      for index in xrange(len(match)):
         if match[index] in '{}':
            open = (open + 1) if match[index] == '{' else (open - 1)
         if not open:
            return match[:index]