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Balanced Brackets Check

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Problem

IDT messaging services may process bracketed metadata embedded in message strings. Write a function that determines whether every bracket is correctly matched and nested.

A string is balanced when each opening bracket has a matching closing bracket of the same type, brackets close in last-in, first-out order, and no closing bracket appears without a corresponding opening bracket. Supported bracket pairs are (), [], and {}. The empty string is balanced.

Formal Specification

Implement is_balanced(s), where s is a string containing only the six bracket characters (, ), [, ], {, and }. Return True if the string is balanced, otherwise return False.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(s) <= 10^5
  • s contains only the six bracket characters
  • Bracket types must match exactly
  • Brackets must be correctly nested

Function Signature

def is_balanced(s):
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