How to write a language parser ?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:29:42 +0200, Timothy Madden wrote:

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> For that I would like to write a php parser, in order to detect the
> proper breakpoints line for statements spanning multiple lines.
> 
> Is there an (open-source) way to do to this in python code ? 

Try pyparsing:

http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/



-- 
Steven