Is Python suitable?

[Terry Reedy]

"Tran Tuan Anh" <anhtt at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ed89f8f2.0402222221.47b6213f at posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have an programming assignment, and would like to try out Python.
>
> I need to read in a simple textual language (does Python have a
> scanner, and parser?),

Yes.  Several options have been listed and discussed here within the last 2
weeks or a month.  There is also a book on text processing with Python.

tjr