parsing math expression in python and solving to find an answer

Question

I am quite new to programming. This is in relation to python. So the idea is to take an expression such as 3/5 or, at most, 3/5*2(at most two operators, note that the operat

Answer 1

Use the shlex and StringIO Python module. In Python 2.3+:

>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> import shlex
>>> input = StringIO('3/4+5')
>>> list(shlex.shlex(input))
['3', '/', '4', '+', '5']