Hello
I am trying to write a DBGp client in python, to be used for debugging
mostly php scripts.
Currently the XDebug module for php allows me to set breakpoints on any
line, include blank ones and lines that are not considered executable,
resulting in breakpoints that will never be hit, even if program flow
control appears to pass through the lines.
For that I would like to write a php parser, in order to detect the
proper breakpoints line for statements spanning multiple lines.
Is there an (open-source) way to do to this in python code ? Most
parsers I could see after a search are either too simple for a real
programming language, or based on a python module written in C. My debug
client is a Vim plugin, and I would like to distribute it as script
files only, if that is possible. The generator itself my well be a C
module, as I only distribute the generated output.
The best parser I could find is PLY, and I would like to know if it is
good enough for the job. My attempt at a bison parser (C only) ended in
about a hundred conflicts, most of which are difficult to understand,
although I admit I do not know much about the subject yet.
Are there other parsers you have used for complete languages ?
Thank you,
Timothy Madden
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