JavaScript parser in Python

[Peter Hansen]

Frantisek Fuka wrote:
> 
> Ian Bicking wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:32, Carl Waldbieser wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone know of a Python module that can parse a JavaScript source file?
> >>I am intersted in checking the file to see if it is syntactically correct,
> >>as well as possibly stripping out whitespace and comments.  I found a couple
> >>JavaScript compression utilities after doing a Google search, but many of
> >>them are themselves written in JavaScript, execute in a browser, and tend to
> >>be somewhat slow for very large JavaScript files.  A pythonic solution has a
> >>certain appeal to me because I have always found Python very easy an
> >>intuitive to use in the past.  Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > Well, I think that Javascript has tokens that pretty much match
> > Python's, except for whitespace.  That at least would make compression
> > fairly easy, though a more general parser would be able to do more.
> 
> And what about Python script that could disassemble the compiled Java
> file into the primitive "Java-assembler" instructions? (i.e. not Java
> source)

Just to clarify, in case you weren't aware "Frantisek":  Java is *not*
related to Javascript.  The two are very different beasts and have next
to nothing in common.

-Peter