Re: [Pyparsing] Check for tabs

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

This might be a good time to invoke some level of moderation on the discussion. There is already confusion over who said what, who assumed what, and so on.

The original post definitely asked a question in an area in which pyparsing is a sledgehammer to swat a fly. In the case of pyparsing, some people do start with flies as simple test cases, or choose to publish those in online support forums as a distilled-down example of some larger problem. (If the latter, I *really* appreciate it, when someone can post a short specific issue instead of a 60-line parser with the issue buried somewhere in it.)

As it happens, this particular example points up a bit of a pitfall in pyparsing, that of looking for TABs in your parser - the call to parseWithTabs is easily overlooked.

I don't think it is at all out of line to suggest non-pyparsing solutions to particular posts here, and I've found that investigating alternative solutions is always of value: sometimes I find a better way, and sometimes I get better insights into the original selected option. 

But this *is* a pyparsing mailing list, not a general Python support list, so if there is a bias to pyparsing-based solutions, I think that could be forgiven.

-- Paul

(I *would* prefer though that we avoid discourteous language - nobody is being paid to respond to these emails, I think most are posted in good faith and with good intentions, and usually with some amount of personal investment. I think there is room to disagree and still maintain civility and respect.)