[Chicago] Python alternatives to ANTLR or JavaCC

[Steven Githens]

I've never actually used it to target more than one parsed language at a 
time, but I've used PyParsing for a few small interpreters and it was 
pretty easy to get up and running with.  I'm using it with Jython, and 
switched to it after trying both JavaCC and Antlr.

http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/

-s

Garrett Smith wrote:
> If you needed to write a code generator to target a very, very wide
> range of languages using an IDL, what would you use?
>
> Adding support for new languages should be fairly easy. I.e. you
> shouldn't need 5 years experience writing lexers and compilers to
> be productive.
>
> ANTLR is an obvious choice, but the dependency on Java presents, IMO,
> fairly high level friction across a lot of platforms.
>
> Garrett
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