Parentheses pairing ({}[]()<>) issue

Question

I want to be able to pair up all parentheses in a string, if they aren\'t paired then then they get their index number and False. It seems like it is repeating some values over

Answer 1

iparens = iter('(){}[]<>')
parens = dict(zip(iparens, iparens))
closing = parens.values()

def balanced(astr):
    stack = []
    for c in astr:
        d = parens.get(c, None)
        if d:
            stack.append(d)
        elif c in closing:
            if not stack or c != stack.pop():
                return False
    return not stack

Example:

>>> balanced('[1<2>(3)]')
True
>>> balanced('[1<2(>3)]')
False