[Pyparsing] left-recursion again: expression of attribute

[spir ☣ <den...@gm...>]

Hello,

This time, that's me having a left-recursion issue. I'm trying to parse var names that can possibly refer to attributes, like "a.b.c". I can parse it as
	simpleName + ZeroOrMore(extension)
but then I need to reformat the result resursively, to get the real semantics of:
	getattr(getattr(container, name), name)
i.e. in the case of "a.b.c":
	((a).b).c

In PEG, I cannot find a way to avoid left-recursion:

simpleName	: [a-zA-Z_] [a-zA-Z_0-9]*
attribute 	: name '.' simpleName
name		: attribute / simpleName

and still get an expression of the recursive pattern directly.
The issue is indeed that (unlike the way I wrote it above) the expression of an attribute is not nicely wrapped in delimiters.
[I really look for that because in my case any name ends up mapping to getattr(world, name), ie it refers an attribute of <world>, the equivalent of in the language I'm parsing of py globals().]

Is there any workaround?
Thanks for reading,

Denis
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