question: @ Nullable public static List < String > extractFromScript ( @ NotNull VirtualFile script ) throws IOException { String text = VfsUtil . loadText ( script ) ; Pattern pat = Pattern . compile ( "(?:^\\s*(['\"])(.*)(\\1),\\s*$)|(\\])" , Pattern . MULTILINE ) ; final String bait_string = "sys.path[0:0]" ; int pos = text . indexOf ( bait_string ) ; List < String > ret = null ; if ( pos >= 0 ) { pos += bait_string . length ( ) ; Matcher scanner = pat . matcher ( text ) ; while ( scanner . find ( pos ) ) { String value = scanner . group ( 2 ) ; if ( value != null ) { if ( ret == null ) { ret = new ArrayList < String > ( ) ; } ret . add ( value ) ; pos = scanner . end ( ) ; } else { break ; } } } return ret ; }
target:  Extracts paths from given script, assuming sys.path[0:0] assignment.