oh Sean this so beautiful and elegant, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much.

The rest of your code is what I was thinking doing with regex instead.

This was the part I was not aware of

�� class := self subclasses detect: [ :c | c pythonClassName = pythonClassName

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:

kilon.alios wrote
> Is this possible ? Is this a smart way ? How would you do it ?

IIUC I would parse just enough to separate the class name from the data, and
then let each subclass parse the data. Something like:
�� PythonObject fromString: '< Bone [ "side bone" , IK = True , ( 1.0 , 0.1
, 0.2) ]>'.
where:
�� PythonObject>>#fromString: aString
�� | bracketContents pythonClassName data class |
�� bracketContents := aString allButFirst allButLast trimBoth.
�� pythonClassName := bracketContents copyUpTo: Character space.
�� data := bracketContents copyAfter: Character space.
�� class := self subclasses detect: [ :c | c pythonClassName = pythonClassName
].
�� ^ class data: data.

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Cheers,
Sean
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