Task: S-expressions
Java: package jfkbits;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StreamTokenizer;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.Iterator;

public class LispTokenizer implements Iterator<Token>
{
    
    StreamTokenizer m_tokenizer;
    IOException m_ioexn;

    
    public LispTokenizer(String src)
    {
        this(new StringReader(src));
    }

    
    public LispTokenizer(Reader r)
    {
        if(r == null)
            r = new StringReader("");
        BufferedReader buffrdr = new BufferedReader(r);
        m_tokenizer = new StreamTokenizer(buffrdr);
        m_tokenizer.resetSyntax(); 

        m_tokenizer.whitespaceChars(0, ' ');
        m_tokenizer.wordChars(' '+1,255);
        m_tokenizer.ordinaryChar('(');
        m_tokenizer.ordinaryChar(')');
        m_tokenizer.ordinaryChar('\'');
        m_tokenizer.commentChar(';');
        m_tokenizer.quoteChar('"');
    }

    public Token peekToken()
    {	
        if(m_ioexn != null)
            return null;
        try
        {
            m_tokenizer.nextToken();
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            m_ioexn = e;
            return null;
        }
        if(m_tokenizer.ttype == StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF)
            return null;
        Token token = new Token(m_tokenizer);
        m_tokenizer.pushBack();
        return token;
    }

    public boolean hasNext()
    {
        if(m_ioexn != null)
            return false;
        try
        {
            m_tokenizer.nextToken();
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            m_ioexn = e;
            return false;
        }
        if(m_tokenizer.ttype == StreamTokenizer.TT_EOF)
            return false;
        m_tokenizer.pushBack();
        return true;
    }

    
    public IOException getIOException()
    {
        return m_ioexn;
    }

    public Token next()
    {
        try
        {
            m_tokenizer.nextToken();
        }
        catch(IOException e)
        {
            m_ioexn = e;
            return null;
        }

        Token token = new Token(m_tokenizer);
        return token;
    }

    public void remove()
    {
    }
}

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))