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

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

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Ginna Baker

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