Re: [Pyparsing] parsing a simple Language

[Paul M. <pt...@au...>]

> I didn't complicate my minimal example with it, but I've got results
> names set for initials, medials, and vowels.
> 
Since the Regex option seems to be a likely path, you can use named capture
groups in your re, and the Regex class will convert these to results names.

syllable =
Group(Regex(r"(?P<init>[sSbB])(?P<meds>[mMpP]*)(?P<vow>[aeiou]?)"))

Iterate over your syllables, and you can access the fields as in:

res = syllables.parseString(t)
for syl in res.syllables:
    print syl.init, syl.meds, syl.vow
    - or -
    print "init: %(init)s meds:%(meds)s vow:%(vow)s" % syl


> Thanks again for your help and insights, Paul -- once again, pyparsing
> shines in all of its glory :-)
> 
> d

:)  Thanks! As I said, this will be very interesting to see how it plays
out.  Pyparsing is already being used in zhpy to support Chinese language
Python development in Python versions 2.x that pre-date support for Unicode
identifiers.  I'd also like to hear sometime just how you got involved in
this application in the first place (perhaps you've already captured this in
a blog post - just send me the post).

Best regards,
-- Paul