recursion in grammar?

[Michael Hudson]

Stephen Horne <steve at ninereeds.fsnet.co.uk> writes:

> ANTLR definitely uses LL parsing. I don't know about Pythons parsing
> engine, though I suspect it uses LR-style parsing.

Nope, LL(1).  One thing you should note is that the grammar in the
docs is *not* the grammar used by Python's parser generator -- that's
Grammar/Grammar in the source distribution.  I'm not sure, but I
suspect that the grammar in the docs is nastily ambiguous.  Certainly
the actual Python parser lets through some stuff that get's thrown out
in the compiler with SyntaxErrors.

Cheers,
mwh

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