[Python-Dev] PLY in stdlib (was cffi in stdlib)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 09:32:53 CEST 2013


On 15 July 2013 16:01, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 14, 2013, at 6:32 AM, David Beazley <dave at dabeaz.com> wrote:
>
> I honestly don't have any particular thoughts about PLY vs. other parser
> generators and the merits of their inclusion (or not) in the standard
> library.
>
>
> I would love to have PLY in the standard library.
> It would open up a whole new world to some users
> and be the basis for tool generation for others.

Agreed (and the fact it's a prerequisite for pycparsing and cffi just
seals the deal).

Cheers,
Nick.

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