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TPG : Parser generator in Python

Gillou nospam at bigfoot.com
Tue Jan 8 06:12:58 EST 2002 
You can have a look at kwparsing too (it is used by gadfly to parse SQL)
http://www.chordate.com/kwParsing/gadfly.html
It's included in the gadfly package but may be used for something completely
different from SQLling.

"Christophe Delord" <christophe.delord at free.fr> a écrit dans le message
news: 3C3A10A7.5010300 at free.fr...
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> Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
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> > In article <3C3A03FC.80302 at free.fr>, Christophe Delord wrote:
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> >>The first version of TPG (Toy Parser Generator) is available at
> >>http://christophe.delord.free.fr
> >>TPG is a recursive descendant parser generator and has been designed to
> >>be small and simple to use. It's not as powerfull as YACC, ANTRL or
> >>others but very easy to use with Python.
> >>
> >>It is the first version of TPG so any comments or requests are welcome
> >>to help me improving TPG.
> >>
> >
> > One question: Have you seen Spark?
> > (http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/spark/)
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> No, I have not.
> I've just downloaded it :-) What I can say after five minutes is that
> SPARK may be more powerfull and faster than TPG. Especially its way of
> coding scanning and parsing in Python is very interesting. But TPG has a
> very clear syntax. It's possible to write a grammar with very few code
> and it can generate stand-alone parsers.
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> I will study SPARK further...
>
> I'm rather new to Python. Do you have other interesting links like this
> one ?
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> >
> >>Christophe.
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