C parsing fun

[karoly.kiripolszky]

Helo ppl!

At the job I was given the task to make a script to analyze C++ code
based on concepts my boss had. To do this I needed to represent C++
code structure in Python somehow. I read the docs for Yapps, pyparsing
and other stuff like those, then I came up with a very simple idea. I
realized that bracketed code is almost like a Python list, except I
have to replace curly brackets with squared ones and surround the
remaining stuff with quotes. This process invokes no recursion or node
objects, only pure string manipulations so I believe it's really fast.
Finally I can get the resulting list by calling eval() with the
string.

For example when I need to parse a class definition, I only need to
look for a list item containing the pattern "*class*", and the next
item will be the contents of the class as another list.

You can grab the code at:

http://kiri.csing.hu/stack/python/bloppy-0.1.zip

(test script [test.py] included)