Custom behavior defined in the imported module

[Kent Johnson]

Paul McGuire wrote:
> The alternatives I've come up with for the user to enable this packrat parse
> mode are:
> 
> 1. Add a staticmethod enablePackrat() to the pyparsing ParserElement class,
> to modify the ParserElement defintion of the internal (non-packrat) parse()
> method.  This method essentially runs code looking like:
> 
>     ParserElement.parse,ParserElement.originalParse = \
>         ParserElement.packratParse,ParserElement.parse

Could you just define a module pyparsingpackrat like this:
from pyparsing import *
ParserElement.parse,ParserElement.originalParse = \
         ParserElement.packratParse,ParserElement.parse

Then users would just import pyparsingpackrat instead of pyparsing.

Kent