I have a project that uses a proprietary format and I've been using regex to extract information from it. I haven't hit any roadblocks yet, but I'd like to use a parsing library rather than maintain my own code base of complicated regex's. I've been intrigued by the parsers available in python, which may add some much needed flexibility.
I've briefly looked at PLY and pyparsing. There are several others, but too many to enumerate. My understanding is that PLY (although more difficult to use) has much more flexibility than pyparsing. I'm basically looking to make an informed choice. Not just for this project, but for the long haul. I'm not afraid of using a difficult (to use or learn) parser either if it buys me something like portability (with other languages) or flexibility). I've been to a few websites that enumerate the parsers, but not all that very helpful when it came to comparisons... http://nedbatchelder.com/text/python-parsers.html http://www.python.org/community/sigs/retired/parser-sig/towards-standard/ I'm not looking to start a flame war... I'd just like some honest opinions.. ;) thanks, filipe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
