Parser building in Python

Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Fri Nov 29 16:17:48 EST 2002


>> I like to write a parser in Python.  The language itself is
>> not LALR(1), but I could do some tricks to make it LALR(1).
>> What are the best tools to write lexers and parsers in
>> Python?  Maybe sth. similar to ANTLR?

ANTLR is a great parser generator, and is fully capable of
lexing/parsing Python. ANTLR generates predicated LALL(k)
parsers, which are fully suitable for unambiguous Python.

Of course, this won't generate a parser IN python, just FOR
python. :)

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