On Sep 20, 8:11 am, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:50 AM, andrew cooke <and...@acooke.org> wrote: > > On Sep 19, 9:34 pm, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sep 19, 6:05 pm, Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >http://nedbatchelder.com/text/python-parsers.html > > >> This is more a less just a list of parsers. I would like some detailed > >> guidelines on which one to choose for various parsing problems. > > > it would be simpler if you described what you want to do - parsers can > > be used for a lot of problems. > > I have never used any parser. The task at my hand right now is to > parse thishttp://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/wiggle.html, which > is a fairly simple even without any parser package. > > I think that it is worthwhile for me to learn some parser packages to > try to parse this format. So that I may in future parse more complex > syntax. Do you have any suggestion what parser I should use for now?
pyparsing would work fine for that, and has a broad community of users that will probably be helpful. i am currently working on an extension to lepl that is related, and i may use that format as an example. if so, i'll tell you. but for now, i think pyparsing makes more sense for you. andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
