# Matching Brackets

Welcome to Matching Brackets on Exercism's Python Track.
If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.

## Introduction

You're given the opportunity to write software for the Bracketeer™, an ancient but powerful mainframe.
The software that runs on it is written in a proprietary language.
Much of its syntax is familiar, but you notice _lots_ of brackets, braces and parentheses.
Despite the Bracketeer™ being powerful, it lacks flexibility.
If the source code has any unbalanced brackets, braces or parentheses, the Bracketeer™ crashes and must be rebooted.
To avoid such a scenario, you start writing code that can verify that brackets, braces, and parentheses are balanced before attempting to run it on the Bracketeer™.

## Instructions

Given a string containing brackets `[]`, braces `{}`, parentheses `()`, or any combination thereof, verify that any and all pairs are matched and nested correctly.
Any other characters should be ignored.
For example, `"{what is (42)}?"` is balanced and `"[text}"` is not.

## Source

### Created by

- @behrtam

### Contributed to by

- @atg-abhishek
- @BethanyG
- @cmccandless
- @Dog
- @ikhadykin
- @kylecjo
- @N-Parsons
- @Nishant23
- @pheanex
- @thomasjpfan
- @tqa236
- @yawpitch

### Based on

Ginna Baker