Re: [Pyparsing] need help building parsing framework for disability access tool

[Eric S.. J. <es...@es...>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul McGuire" <pt...@au...>
> To: "Eric S.. Johansson" <es...@es...>, pyp...@li...
> Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 4:59:38 AM
> Subject: RE: [Pyparsing] need help building parsing framework for disability	access tool
> 
> Eric -
> 
> See if this gets you close:

No matter how well somebody does your homework for you, you still need to study to understand the basics.

It looks like it should do what I want but I still can't quite figure it out. The syntax of pyparsing is "different".

My first question is how do I inject the text stream into this. Is it using parser as a function and the text stream is the input argument? what is returned and in what order? You tell me to use "keyword" "arg" and "data" but I'm not grocking how yet.

are there any good books or online documentation for really understanding pyparser or is it one of those "written by aliens"[1] type of things?


Thanks
--- eric

[1] The phrase "written by aliens" is an affectionate tease of really brilliant people who write something so astonishingly Brilliant yet unintelligible to mere mortals. I've been on both sides of the line. :-)