def remove_parentheses()

in voxpopuli/get_lm_data.py [0:0]

• 16 lines of code
• 11 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def remove_parentheses(text: str) -> str:
    # remove all substring within () or []
    out = ""
    num_p = 0
    start_i = 0
    for i, c in enumerate(text):
        if c == "(" or c == "[":
            if num_p == 0 and i > start_i:
                out += text[start_i:i]
            num_p += 1
        elif c == ")" or c == "]":
            num_p -= 1
            if num_p == 0:
                start_i = i + 1

    if len(text) > start_i:
        out += text[start_i:]

    return out