Hi, I know this isnt the pyparsing list, but it doesnt seem like there is one. I m trying to use pyparsing to parse a file however I cant get the Optional keyword to work. My file generally looks like this:
ALIGNMENT 1020 YS2-10a02.q1k chr09 1295 42 141045 142297 C 1254 95.06 1295 reject_bad_break 0 or this: ALIGNMENT 36 YS2-10a08.q1k chrm 208 165 10745 10788 C 44 95.45 593 reject_low 10,14 and my grammar work well for these lines, however somethings the row looks like: ALIGNMENT 53 YS2-10b03.p1k chr12 180 125 1067465 1067520 C 56 98.21 532|5,2 reject_low 25 So I try to parse the 532 using from pyparsing import * integer = Word( nums ) float = Word( nums+".") identifier = Word( alphanums+"-_." ) alignment = Literal("ALIGNMENT ").suppress() row_1 = integer.setResultsName("row_1")#.setParseAction(make_int) src_id = identifier.setResultsName("src_id") dest_id = identifier.setResultsName("dest_id") src_start = integer.setResultsName("src_start")#.setParseAction(make_int) src_stop = integer.setResultsName("src_stop")#.setParseAction(make_int) dest_start = integer.setResultsName("dest_start")#.setParseAction(make_int) dest_stop = integer.setResultsName("dest_stop")#.setParseAction(make_int) row_8 = oneOf("F C").setResultsName("row_8") length = integer.setResultsName("length")#.setParseAction(make_int) percent_id = float.setResultsName("percent_id")#.setParseAction(make_float) row_11 = integer + Optional(Literal("|") + commaSeparatedList ) )#.setResultsName("row_11")#.setParseAction(make_int) result = Word(alphas+"_").setResultsName("result") row_13 = commaSeparatedList.setResultsName("row_13") def make_alilines_status_parser(): return alignment + row_1 + src_id + dest_id + src_start + src_stop + dest_start + dest_stop + row_8 + length + percent_id + row_11 + result + row_13 def parse_alilines_status(ifile): alilines = make_alilines_status_parser() for l in ifile: yield alilines.parseString( l ) However my parser always fails on lines of type 3. Does anyone know why the Optional part is not working. Many Thanks in advance Nathan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list