Is pyparsing really a recursive descent parser?

[Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality]

"Steven D'Aprano" <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:15:50 +0000, Just Another Victim of the Ambient
> Morality wrote:
>
>> Why can't I find a pyparsing-esque library with this implementation?
>> I'm tempted to roll my own except that it's a fairly complicated
>> algorithm and I don't really understand how it's any more efficient than
>> the naive approach...
>
> I think you may have just answered your own question :)

    Yes, but my own answer lacks detail that I was hoping you could 
provide...