I'm happy to announce a new release of pyparsing, version 2.0.2. This release contains some small enhancements and some bugfixes. Change summary: --------------- - Extended "expr(name)" shortcut (same as "expr.setResultsName(name)") to accept "expr()" as a shortcut for "expr.copy()". - Added "locatedExpr(expr)" helper, to decorate any returned tokens with their location within the input string. Adds the results names locn_start and locn_end to the output parse results. - Added "pprint()" method to ParseResults, to simplify troubleshooting and prettified output. Now instead of importing the pprint module and then writing "pprint.pprint(result)", you can just write "result.pprint()". This method also accepts additional positional and keyword arguments (such as indent, width, etc.), which get passed through directly to the pprint method (see http://docs.python.org/2/library/pprint.html#pprint.pprint). - Removed deprecation warnings when using '<<' for Forward expression assignment. '<<=' is still preferred, but '<<' will be retained for cases where '<<=' operator is not suitable (such as in defining lambda expressions). - Expanded argument compatibility for classes and functions that take list arguments, to now accept generators as well. - Extended list-like behavior of ParseResults, adding support for append and extend. NOTE: if you have existing applications using these names as results names, you will have to access them using dict-style syntax: res["append"] and res["extend"] - ParseResults emulates the change in list vs. iterator semantics for methods like keys(), values(), and items(). Under Python 2.x, these methods will return lists, under Python 3.x, these methods will return iterators. - ParseResults now has a method haskeys() which returns True or False depending on whether any results names have been defined. This simplifies testing for the existence of results names under Python 3.x, which returns keys() as an iterator, not a list. - ParseResults now supports both list and dict semantics for pop(). If passed no argument or an integer argument, it will use list semantics and pop tokens from the list of parsed tokens. If passed a non-integer argument (most likely a string), it will use dict semantics and pop the corresponding value from any defined results names. A second default return value argument is supported, just as in dict.pop(). - Fixed bug in markInputline, thanks for reporting this, Matt Grant! - Cleaned up my unit test environment, now runs with Python 2.6 and 3.3. Download pyparsing 2.0.2 at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyparsing/, or use 'easy_install pyparsing'. You can also access pyparsing's epydoc documentation online at http://packages.python.org/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 - Verilog parser - Google protobuf parser - time expression parser/evaluator - 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