| ANN: pyparsing 1.4.8 released [message #15614] |
Sun, 07 October 2007 03:31 |
 Paul McGuire
Messages: 59
Registered: August 2007 |
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I'm happy to announce that I have just uploaded the latest release
(v1.4.8) of pyparsing. This release has a few new features and
corresponding demonstration examples. There are also a few minor
bug-fixes, and a performance speedup in the operatorPrecedence method.
Here are the notes:
- Added new helper method nestedExpr to easily create expressions
that parse lists of data in nested parentheses, braces, brackets,
etc.
- Added withAttribute parse action helper, to simplify creating
filtering parse actions to attach to expressions returned by
makeHTMLTags and makeXMLTags. Use withAttribute to qualify a
starting tag with one or more required attribute values, to avoid
false matches on common tags such as <TD> or <DIV>.
- Added new examples nested.py and withAttribute.py to demonstrate
the new features.
- Added performance speedup to grammars using operatorPrecedence,
instigated by Stefan Reichör - thanks for the feedback, Stefan!
- Fixed bug/typo when deleting an element from a ParseResults by
using the element's results name.
- Fixed whitespace-skipping bug in wrapper classes (such as Group,
Suppress, Combine, etc.) and when using setDebug(), reported by
new pyparsing user dazzawazza on SourceForge, nice job!
- Added restriction to prevent defining Word or CharsNotIn expressions
with minimum length of 0 (should use Optional if this is desired),
and enhanced docstrings to reflect this limitation. Issue was
raised by Joey Tallieu, who submitted a patch with a slightly
different solution. Thanks for taking the initiative, Joey, and
please keep submitting your ideas!
- Fixed bug in makeHTMLTags that did not detect HTML tag attributes
with no '= value' portion (such as "<td nowrap>"), reported by
hamidh on the pyparsing wiki - thanks!
- Fixed minor bug in makeHTMLTags and makeXMLTags, which did not
accept whitespace in closing tags.
Download pyparsing 1.4.8 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyparsing/.
The pyparsing Wiki is at http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com
-- Paul
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Pyparsing is a pure-Python class library for quickly developing
recursive-descent parsers. Parser grammars are assembled directly in
the calling Python code, using classes such as Literal, Word,
OneOrMore, Optional, etc., combined with operators '+', '|', and '^'
for And, MatchFirst, and Or. No separate code-generation or external
files are required. Pyparsing can be used in many cases in place of
regular expressions, with shorter learning curve and greater
readability and maintainability. Pyparsing comes with a number of
parsing examples, including:
- "Hello, World!" (English, Korean, Greek, and Spanish(new))
- chemical formulas
- configuration file parser
- web page URL extractor
- 5-function arithmetic expression parser
- subset of CORBA IDL
- chess portable game notation
- simple SQL parser
- Mozilla calendar file parser
- EBNF parser/compiler
- Python value string parser (lists, dicts, tuples, with nesting)
(safe alternative to eval)
- HTML tag stripper
- S-expression parser
- macro substitution preprocessor
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