Paul McGuire <pt...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > On Mar 26, 2:51 pm, "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > > OK, I've got a little problem that I'd like to ask the assembled minds > > for help with. I can write code to parse this, but I'm thinking it may > > be possible to do it with regexes. My regex foo isn't that good, so if > > anyone is willing to help (or offer an alternate parsing suggestion) > > I would be greatful. (This has to be stdlib only, by the way, I > > can't introduce any new modules into the application so pyparsing is > > not an option.) > > If you must cram all your code into a single source file, then > pyparsing would be problematic. But pyparsing's installation > footprint is really quite small, just a single Python source file. So > if your program spans more than one file, just add pyparsing.py into > the local directory along with everything else.
It isn't a matter of wanting to cram the code into a single source file. I'm fixing a bug in a vendor-installed application. A ten line locally maintained patch is bad enough, installing a whole new external dependency is just Not An Option :) -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
