"t.type = reserved.get(t.value,'ID')"
what is the 'ID' bit?
Thanks for the help

On Oct 11, 2:11 pm, David Beazley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Bruce Frederiksen wrote:
>
> > I'm going to go with specifying t_STRING after t_NAME, so that the  
> > word "string" is taken as a NAME.  Try putting t_STRING before  
> > t_NAME...
>
> [snip]
>
> > # Tokens
>
> > t_NAME    = r'[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*'
> > t_STRING  = r'"[a-zA-Z0-9]*"'
> > t_STRDEF  = 'string'
>
> I'm going to agree with this.  The t_STRDEF token is being matched by  
> the t_NAME rule above it which is almost certainly causing this  
> problem.   The original poster should look 
> athttp://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ply.html#ply_nn6
>   and note the part about "reserved words."
>
> This problem comes up so often, I'm almost wondering if I should add  
> an extra validation check to PLY.   It occurs to me that I could  
> modify lex to look for regexes that are made up of nothing but simple  
> characters (e.g., 'string' above) and then test them for matches  
> against the other regular expressions (e.g., t_NAME).  If a match is  
> found, some kind of stern warning message could be issued about it.
>
> As the documentation states, it's really a bad idea to make separate  
> token rules for reserved words like 'string', 'if', 'else', etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
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