parser question

[Kent Johnson]

Micah Elliott wrote:
> You might be able to tackle this easily enough with REs if your
> structures don't nest arbitrarily.  It's hard to tell if this deserves
> a formal grammar based on the example.  If it does, you could try PLY
> <http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/> (which I've had a pleasant experience
> with in the past) or any of the other parsers listed on the PLY site's
> "Other Python Parsing Tools".

A more complete list is here:
http://www.nedbatchelder.com/text/python-parsers.html

I have found pyparsing easy to work with.

Kent