On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:14 AM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I propose a challenge: express the dtype grammar in EBNF. That's all.
>
> Not sure I understand. Do you mean just the little string-parsing DSL
> for specifying dtypes ("i4,datetime64[ms]"), or is there some way to
> write EBNF for describing arbitrary nested Python structures?
>
>
Heh, pinning that down is part of the problem. I think a good start is the
string parsing, but dtypes can also be constructed using python tuples,
lists and types.
Chuck
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