Task: S-expressions
Go: package main

import (
    "errors"
    "fmt"
    "reflect"
    "strconv"
    "strings"
    "unicode"
)

var input = `((data "quoted data" 123 4.5)
 (data (!@# (4.5) "(more" "data)")))`

func main() {
    fmt.Println("input:")
    fmt.Println(input)

    s, err := parseSexp(input)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("error:", err)
        return
    }

    fmt.Println("\nparsed:")
    fmt.Println(s)

    fmt.Println("\nrepresentation:")
    s.dump(0)
}


type sexp struct {
    i interface{}
}
type qString string
type list []sexp

func (s sexp) String() string {
    return fmt.Sprintf("%v", s.i)
}

func (q qString) String() string {
    return strconv.Quote(string(q))
}

func (l list) String() string {
    if len(l) == 0 {
        return "()"
    }
    b := fmt.Sprintf("(%v", l[0])
    for _, s := range l[1:] {
        b = fmt.Sprintf("%s %v", b, s)
    }
    return b + ")"
}

















func parseSexp(s string) (sexp, error) {
    s1, rem := ps2(s, -1)
    if err, isErr := s1.i.(error); isErr {
        return sexp{}, err
    }
    if rem > "" {
        return s1, errors.New("Left over text: " + rem)
    }
    return s1, nil
}




func ps2(s0 string, n int) (x sexp, rem string) {
    tok, s1 := gettok(s0)
    switch t := tok.(type) {
    case error:
        return sexp{tok}, s1
    case nil: 
        if n < 0 {
            return sexp{errors.New("blank input string")}, s0
        } else {
            return sexp{errors.New("unmatched (")}, ""
        }
    case byte:
        switch {
        case t == '(':
            x, s1 = ps2(s1, 0) 
            if _, isErr := x.i.(error); isErr {
                return x, s0
            }
        case n < 0:
            return sexp{errors.New("unmatched )")}, ""
        default:
            
            return sexp{make(list, n)}, s1
        }
    default:
        x = sexp{tok} 
    }
    if n < 0 {
        
        return x, s1
    }
    
    l, s1 := ps2(s1, n+1)
    
    
    if _, isErr := l.i.(error); !isErr {
        
        l.i.(list)[n] = x
    }
    return l, s1
}
    






func gettok(s string) (tok interface{}, rem string) {
    s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
    if s == "" {
        return nil, ""
    }
    switch s[0] {
    case '(', ')':
        return s[0], s[1:]
    case '"': 
        if i := strings.Index(s[1:], `"`); i >= 0 {
            return qString(s[1 : i+1]), s[i+2:]
        } 
        return errors.New(`unmatched "`), s
    }
    i := 1
    for i < len(s) && s[i] != '(' && s[i] != ')' && s[i] != '"' &&
        !unicode.IsSpace(rune(s[i])) {
        i++
    }
    if j, err := strconv.Atoi(s[:i]); err == nil {
        return j, s[i:]
    }
    if f, err := strconv.ParseFloat(s[:i], 64); err == nil {
        return f, s[i:]
    }
    return s[:i], s[i:]
}

func (s sexp) dump(i int) {
    fmt.Printf("%*s%v: ", i*3, "", reflect.TypeOf(s.i))
    if l, isList := s.i.(list); isList {
        fmt.Println(len(l), "elements")
        for _, e := range l {
            e.dump(i + 1)
        }
    } else {
        fmt.Println(s.i)
    }
}

Python: import re

dbg = False

term_regex = r

def parse_sexp(sexp):
    stack = []
    out = []
    if dbg: print("%-6s %-14s %-44s %-s" % tuple("term value out stack".split()))
    for termtypes in re.finditer(term_regex, sexp):
        term, value = [(t,v) for t,v in termtypes.groupdict().items() if v][0]
        if dbg: print("%-7s %-14s %-44r %-r" % (term, value, out, stack))
        if   term == 'brackl':
            stack.append(out)
            out = []
        elif term == 'brackr':
            assert stack, "Trouble with nesting of brackets"
            tmpout, out = out, stack.pop(-1)
            out.append(tmpout)
        elif term == 'num':
            v = float(value)
            if v.is_integer(): v = int(v)
            out.append(v)
        elif term == 'sq':
            out.append(value[1:-1])
        elif term == 's':
            out.append(value)
        else:
            raise NotImplementedError("Error: %r" % (term, value))
    assert not stack, "Trouble with nesting of brackets"
    return out[0]

def print_sexp(exp):
    out = ''
    if type(exp) == type([]):
        out += '(' + ' '.join(print_sexp(x) for x in exp) + ')'
    elif type(exp) == type('') and re.search(r'[\s()]', exp):
        out += '"%s"' % repr(exp)[1:-1].replace('"', '\"')
    else:
        out += '%s' % exp
    return out
        
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    sexp = 

    print('Input S-expression: %r' % (sexp, ))
    parsed = parse_sexp(sexp)
    print("\nParsed to Python:", parsed)

    print("\nThen back to: '%s'" % print_sexp(parsed))