bug#24434: [25.1.1] parse-partial-sexp: opening delimiter missed

[Noam Postavsky]

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Andreas Röhler
<andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
> python-mode, problem seems not restricted to.
>
> When after curly bracket in example below from
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#formatstrings
> 6.1.3. Format String Syntax:
>
> str.format("Bring me a {
>
> depth-in-paren. i.e.
>
> (nth 0 (parse-partial-sexp ...))

This bug report is a bit incomplete, what do you put for "..."?

>
> should indicate "2", but says "1".
>
> When outside a string, `{' is recognized as opener.

I think this is correct, parse-partial-sexp detects whether it's in a
string-literal or not. If you want to parse the contents of the string
literal, FROM should be inside the literal.