I've been working on a Python class object for APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System - a digital mode used by amateur radio operators) and have been going through David Mertz's Text Processing in Python book to help in the construction of the parser component of the class.
I was curious if there was a good reference on the most pythonic design of parsing objects. For instance, should one parse raw or formatted data upon initialization and return a boolean indicating success/failure, or require multiple steps to instantiate then parse and test? Are there generally found public methods in parsing objects that would serve as a good model? Thanks - Jamie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
