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Asked: 2026-05-26T04:30:16+00:00

I have a glyph information from a font that looks like this: (CHARACTER C

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I have a glyph information from a font that looks like this:

(CHARACTER C T
   (CHARWD R 0.6944475)
   (CHARHT R 0.686111)
   (COMMENT
      (KRN C y R -0.027779)
      (KRN C e R -0.083334)
      (KRN C o R -0.083334)
      (KRN C r R -0.083334)
      (KRN C a R -0.083334)
      (KRN C A R -0.083334)
      (KRN C u R -0.083334)
      )
   )

Is there a straightforward way to parse this in python? I’ve used BeautifulSoup before, but it requires nested <tag> </tag> like information. It wouldn’t be to hard to convert this to XML and back again – but it seems like it would be reinventing the wheel. How would I get this information into a data object that I can manipulate and spit back out again?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could use pyparsing. Your example looks very much like an s-expression, and they have an s-expression parser in their examples section: http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/file/view/sexpParser.py

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