I have just uploaded version 1.4.11 of pyparsing to SourceForge. It has been a pretty full 2 months since the last release, with contributions from new users, old users, and also some help from the Google Highly-Open Participation contest. I think there are some very interesting new features in this release. Please check it out! (Please note - if you download and install the Windows binary, this will NOT include the HTML doc or examples directory. TO get these, you will need to download the docs or one of the source distributions.) The pyparsing wiki is at http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com. Here are the notes for 1.4.11: Version 1.4.11 - February 10, 2008 ---------------------------------- - With help from Robert A. Clark, this version of pyparsing is compatible with Python 3.0a3. Thanks for the help, Robert! - Added WordStart and WordEnd positional classes, to support expressions that must occur at the start or end of a word. Proposed by piranha on the pyparsing wiki, good idea! - Added matchOnlyAtCol helper parser action, to simplify parsing log or data files that have optional fields that are column dependent. Inspired by a discussion thread with hubritic on comp.lang.python. - Added withAttribute.ANY_VALUE as a match-all value when using withAttribute. Used to ensure that an attribute is present, without having to match on the actual attribute value. - Added get() method to ParseResults, similar to dict.get(). Suggested by new pyparsing user, Alejandro Dubrovksy, thanks! - Added '==' short-cut to see if a given string matches a pyparsing expression. For instance, you can now write: integer = Word(nums) if "123" == integer: # do something print [ x for x in "123 234 asld".split() if x==integer ] # prints ['123', '234'] - Simplified the use of nestedExpr when using an expression for the opening or closing delimiters. Now the content expression will not have to explicitly negate closing delimiters. Found while working with dfinnie on GHOP Task #277, thanks! - Fixed bug when defining ignorable expressions that are later enclosed in a wrapper expression (such as ZeroOrMore, OneOrMore, etc.) - found while working with Prabhu Gurumurthy, thanks Prahbu! - Fixed bug in withAttribute in which keys were automatically converted to lowercase, making it impossible to match XML attributes with uppercase characters in them. Using with- Attribute requires that you reference attributes in all lowercase if parsing HTML, and in correct case when parsing XML. - Changed '<<' operator on Forward to return None, since this is really used as a pseudo-assignment operator, not as a left-shift operator. By returning None, it is easier to catch faulty statements such as a << b | c, where precedence of operations causes the '|' operation to be performed *after* inserting b into a, so no alternation is actually implemented. The correct form is a << (b | c). With this change, an error will be reported instead of silently clipping the alternative term. (Note: this may break some existing code, but if it does, the code had a silent bug in it anyway.) Proposed by wcbarksdale on the pyparsing wiki, thanks! - Several unit tests were added to pyparsing's regression suite, courtesy of the Google Highly-Open Participation Contest. Thanks to all who administered and took part in this event! ======================================== 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) - 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 - search query 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