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Name: pyparsing
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Summary: pyparsing - Classes and methods to define and execute parsing grammars
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PyParsing -- A Python Parsing Module
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Introduction
============

The pyparsing module is an alternative approach to creating and
executing simple grammars, vs. the traditional lex/yacc approach, or the
use of regular expressions. The pyparsing module provides a library of
classes that client code uses to construct the grammar directly in
Python code.

*[Since first writing this description of pyparsing in late 2003, this
technique for developing parsers has become more widespread, under the
name Parsing Expression Grammars - PEGs. See more information on PEGs*
`here <
*.]*

Here is a program to parse ``"Hello, World!"`` (or any greeting of the form
``"salutation, addressee!"``):

.. code:: python

    from pyparsing import Word, alphas
    greet = Word(alphas) + "," + Word(alphas) + "!"
    hello = "Hello, World!"
    print(hello, "->", greet.parse_string(hello))

The program outputs the following::

    Hello, World! -> ['Hello', ',', 'World', '!']

The Python representation of the grammar is quite readable, owing to the
self-explanatory class names, and the use of '+', '|' and '^' operator
definitions.

The parsed results returned from ``parse_string()`` is a collection of type
``ParseResults``, which can be accessed as a
nested list, a dictionary, or an object with named attributes.

The pyparsing module handles some of the problems that are typically
vexing when writing text parsers:

- extra or missing whitespace (the above program will also handle ``"Hello,World!"``, ``"Hello , World !"``, etc.)
- quoted strings
- embedded comments

The examples directory includes a simple SQL parser, simple CORBA IDL
parser, a config file parser, a chemical formula parser, and a four-
function algebraic notation parser, among many others.

Documentation
=============

There are many examples in the online docstrings of the classes
and methods in pyparsing. You can find them compiled into `online docs <
documentation resources and project info are listed in the online
`GitHub wiki <
entire directory of examples can be found `here <

AI Instructions
===============

There are also instructions for AI agents to use when helping you to create your parser. They can
be pulled from the GitHub project repository, at pyparsing/ai/best_practices.md. You can also tell
the AI to access them programmatically after installing pyparsing, either from the CLI with
`python -m pyparsing.ai.show_best_practices` or within python with
`import pyparsing; pyparsing.show_best_practices()`.


License
=======

MIT License. See header of the `pyparsing __init__.py <

History
=======

See `CHANGES <


Performance benchmarks
======================

For usage instructions and details on the performance benchmark suite, see
``tests/README.md`` in this repository.

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