YACC grammar for Python

[Martin v. Loewis]

Don Garrett <garrett at bgb.cc> writes:

>    I'm very interested in any results that you get, but it may be that
> YACC can't handle the Python grammer very well. Making indention
> levels significant is different from most of the language types that
> YACC was created for.

That should work just fine if you start from Grammar/Grammer: you just
need a scanner that generates the proper INDENT and DEDENT tokens.

Conversion of Grammar/Grammar to yacc shouldn't be too difficult: you
just have to remove the E part of the EBNF.

HTH,
Martin