David Beasley; see earlier in this same thread:
  http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-February/thread.html#124389



On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 7/13/2013 12:10 AM, Eric Snow wrote:

On Feb 27, 2013 4:31 AM, "Michael Foord" <fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk

 > +1 PLY is capable and well tried-and-tested. We used it in Resolver
One to implement a pretty large grammar and it is (in my opinion) best
of breed in the Python parser generator world. Being stable and widely
used, with an "available maintainer", makes it an ideal candidate for
standard library inclusion.

Is this still on the table?

Who is the maintainer and what is his opinion?

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Terry Jan Reedy