Introduction
Regular expressions (abbreviated to regex, the pronunciation of which gives rise to endless ame wars. . . ) are used in various programming languages and utilities to match entire classes of strings. This assignment will give you experience modelling a regular expression as a tree, and detecting which strings match a given regular expression.We wont favour any particular regex language or utility, such as Python, Java, or Linuxs grep, but use a stripped-down simpli ed regular expression form that contains all the essential principles. In particular, you are not permitted to import Pythons regular expression module are into any file you submit.Well only be dealing with a ternary alphabet, i.e., f0; 1; 2g. Generalizing to an arbitrary alphabet is straightforward, but doesnt buy us much for the purpose of this assignment. The elementary regex symbols well use can be easily typed in Python source code. A regex (over ternary alphabet f0; 1; 2g) is a nonemptystring made up of the following symbols.0 called zero1 one2 twoe pronounced ee or epsilon| bar. dot* star( left parenthesis, or left) right parenthesis, or right1There are several rules determining that a string made up of these symbols is a valid regular expression:1. There are 4 regexes of length one. They are: 0 1 2 e2. If r is a regular expression, then so is r + *, where the plus symbol + means string concatenation, as in Python.3. If r1 and r2 are regexes, then so are: ( + r1 + | + r2 + ) ( + r1 + . + r2 + )Here are some examples of regexes: 0 1 2 e 0* 1* 2* e* (0|1) (1.2) (e|0) (2.e) (0*|2*) ((0.1).2) ((1.(0|2)*).0)
Tree Representation of Regexes
Every regex can be (uniquely) represented as a tree. Each leaf node contains exactly one of 0, 1, 2, or e. Each internal node contains exactly one of ., |, or *.A regex of length one is represented by a tree of one node containing the symbol in the regex. For example, the regex 0 is represented by the tree whose root is the leaf node containing 0.A regex of the form r + * is represented by a tree whose root node contains *, and that node has one child which is the tree that represents the regex r. E.g., the regex 1* is represented by the following tree:1*A regex of the form ( + r1 + | + r2 + ) is represented by a tree whose root node contains |, and that node has left and right children which are the trees that represent the regexes r1 and r2 respectively.For example, the regex (0|1) is represented by the following tree:0 1 TT|A regex of the form ( + r1 + . + r2 + ) is represented just as a regex of the form ( + r1 + | + r2 + ), except the root now contains . rather than |. For example, the regex ((0.1).0) is represented by the following tree:0 1 TT. 0 ll.Heres an example that combines all concepts from above. The regex ((1.(0|1)*).0) is represented by the following tree:10 1 TT|*,, TT. 0 bbb.
Matching Strings with Regexes
A ternary string is a string (possibly empty) that contains only the symbols 0, 1 and 2. For a regex r and a ternary string s, we de ne below what it means for r to match s. (Equivalently we may also say thats matches r, or that r and s match).
1. A regex of length one matches exactly one string. Speci cally: the regex 0 matches the string 0 the regex 1 matches the string 1 the regex 2 matches the string 2 the regex e matches the string (i.e., e matches the empty string)
2. A regex of the form r + * matches string s if and only if either(a) s equals (empty string), or(b) s has the form s1 + s2 + + sk where k 0 and r matches every siFor example, the regex 0* matches any string (possibly empty) that contains no other symbols than the symbol 0
3. A regex of the form ( + r1 + | + r2 + ) matches string s if and only if:(a) r1 matches s, or(b) r2 matches s, or(c) both of the aboveFor example, the regex (2|0*) matches the string 2 as well as any string that contains only the symbol 0
4. A regex of the form ( + r1 + . + r2 + ) matches a string s if and only if there are two strings s1 and s2 (each possibly empty) such that(a) s is the concatenation of s1 and s2 (i.e., s equals s1 + s2), and(b) r1 matches s1, and(c) r2 matches s2.For example, the regex (1*.2) matches any string that contains zero or more 1s, followed by exactly one 2.Heres an example that combines all concepts from above. The regex ((1.(0|1)*).2) matches any string that starts with 1 and ends with 2, and has any number of 0s and 1s in between (including nothing in between).
Your Job
Stage 1: Design a collection of classes to represent the various sorts of regular expression trees. Each class should implement or inherit at least the following methods: __init__ , __eq__ and a __repr__.__repr__ should be written in such a way that it will allow you copy its output into a Python shell to produce an equivalent tree. You should carefully consider how to use inheritance to reduce the amount of duplicated code. You should also ensure that public attributes for a trees symbol or children can only be set once, during initialization (i.e., they should be private, and have not be set in any method other than __init__).Your classes should be written in a le called regex design.py.
Stage 2: You should:
1. Download regextree.py and regex functions.py Add your name to the license at the top of regex functions.py, indicating that you have added intellectual value to it. However, do not add any import statements, or change the import statement, in regex functions.py. You may only distribute the les, or modi ed versions of them, with the same license, and along with the fil e COPYING
2. In regex functions.py implement the following module-level functions:is regex(s): which takes a string s and produces True if it is a valid regular expression (according to the characterization in the introduction of this handout), but False otherwise. all regex permutations(s): which takes a string s and produces the set of permutations of s that are valid regular expressions (according to the characterization in the introduction of this handout)regex match(r, s): which returns True if and only if string s matches the regular expression tree rooted at r.build regex tree(regex): which takes a valid regular expression string regex, builds the corresponding regular expression tree, and returns its root.
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