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What tools are available in Python to assist in parsing a context-free grammar?
Of course it is possible to roll my own, but I am looking for a generic tool that can generate a parser for a given CFG.
I warmly recommend PLY – it’s a Lex/Yacc clone in Python that uses the language’s introspection facilities in a sophisticated manner to allow for a very natural specification of the grammar. Yacc, if you recall, is the very embodiment of CFGs in an understandable DSL that defines how one parses them.
I used it to implement my parser for ANSI C and the interaction with PLY was almost effortless.