This is not about running Lua inside Python or Python inside Lua. I will go thorough few of tools you all mentioned and will back.
Making a grammar is really fun. I am more curious to know how the AST would turn to be. -- Gopal On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Gopalakrishnan Subramani < > gopalakrishnan.subram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I could make a grammar compiled myself. I will look into SPARK.. Anybody > > has > > experience in pyparsing http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ ? > > Under Examples http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/Examples Python language > > example is promising. > > > > Have you taken a look at Lunatic Python ? > > http://labix.org/lunatic-python > > Looks like it already provides the required interfaces you need. > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Gopal > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Gopalakrishnan Subramani <gopalakrishnan.subram...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > Source language IO is very limited and it has functions to map to IO > > and > > > UI. > > > > As a total, they have around 100+ function. > > > > > > > > Those can be easily done in Lua. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > For a project in one of my earlier companies, I used SPARK[1] to write > a > > > little parser for a language of my own making to used to specify some > > > conditionals. > > > > > > The parser would convert this into a python expression which could be > > > evaluated with some objects to return a true or a false. > > > > > > If you have the grammar of your source language at hand, it's a fews > > > hours job to write a parser for it using SPARK. Once you do that, you > > > have to write a backend to convert it into LUA which might be a little > > > more complex but not impossibly so. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Footnotes: > > > [1] http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/spark/ > > > > > > -- > > > ~noufal > > > http://nibrahim.net.in > > > > > > An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out. -Arthur Baer, > American > > > comic and columnist > > > _______________________________________________ > > > BangPypers mailing list > > > BangPypers@python.org > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > --Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
