The maintainer is David Beazley and as far as I recall he has not expressed an opinion on this particular question. It would obviously need his agreement (and maintenance commitment) if it is to fly.
On 13 Jul 2013, at 07:41, 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?