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

BRACES = { '(': ')', '[': ']', '{': '}' }

def group_check(s):
    stack = []
    for b in s:
        c = BRACES.get(b)
        if c:
            stack.append(c)
        elif not stack or stack.pop() != b:
            return False
    return not stack