I'm happy to announce that I have just uploaded the latest release (v1.4.8) of pyparsing. This release has a few new features and corresponding demonstration examples. There are also a few minor bug-fixes, and a performance speedup in the operatorPrecedence method.
Here are the notes: - Added new helper method nestedExpr to easily create expressions that parse lists of data in nested parentheses, braces, brackets, etc. - Added withAttribute parse action helper, to simplify creating filtering parse actions to attach to expressions returned by makeHTMLTags and makeXMLTags. Use withAttribute to qualify a starting tag with one or more required attribute values, to avoid false matches on common tags such as <TD> or <DIV>. - Added new examples nested.py and withAttribute.py to demonstrate the new features. - Added performance speedup to grammars using operatorPrecedence, instigated by Stefan Reichör - thanks for the feedback, Stefan! - Fixed bug/typo when deleting an element from a ParseResults by using the element's results name. - Fixed whitespace-skipping bug in wrapper classes (such as Group, Suppress, Combine, etc.) and when using setDebug(), reported by new pyparsing user dazzawazza on SourceForge, nice job! - Added restriction to prevent defining Word or CharsNotIn expressions with minimum length of 0 (should use Optional if this is desired), and enhanced docstrings to reflect this limitation. Issue was raised by Joey Tallieu, who submitted a patch with a slightly different solution. Thanks for taking the initiative, Joey, and please keep submitting your ideas! - Fixed bug in makeHTMLTags that did not detect HTML tag attributes with no '= value' portion (such as "<td nowrap>"), reported by hamidh on the pyparsing wiki - thanks! - Fixed minor bug in makeHTMLTags and makeXMLTags, which did not accept whitespace in closing tags. Download pyparsing 1.4.8 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyparsing/. The pyparsing Wiki is at http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com -- Paul ======================================== Pyparsing is a pure-Python class library for quickly developing recursive-descent parsers. Parser grammars are assembled directly in the calling Python code, using classes such as Literal, Word, OneOrMore, Optional, etc., combined with operators '+', '|', and '^' for And, MatchFirst, and Or. No separate code-generation or external files are required. Pyparsing can be used in many cases in place of regular expressions, with shorter learning curve and greater readability and maintainability. Pyparsing comes with a number of parsing examples, including: - "Hello, World!" (English, Korean, Greek, and Spanish(new)) - chemical formulas - configuration file parser - web page URL extractor - 5-function arithmetic expression parser - subset of CORBA IDL - chess portable game notation - simple SQL parser - Mozilla calendar file parser - EBNF parser/compiler - Python value string parser (lists, dicts, tuples, with nesting) (safe alternative to eval) - HTML tag stripper - S-expression parser - macro substitution preprocessor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list