[Python-Dev] Parser module in the stdlib

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:29 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 08:55:59AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> > I am interested in switching CPython's parsing strategy to something else
> > (what exactly remains to be seen)
>
> Are you re-thinking the restriction to LL(1) grammars?
>

Indeed. I think it served us well for the first 10-15 years, but now it is
just a burden.

See a thread I started at Discourse:
https://discuss.python.org/t/switch-pythons-parsing-tech-to-something-more-powerful-than-ll-1/379

And some followup there:
https://discuss.python.org/t/preparing-for-new-python-parsing/1550

Note that this is very much speculative.

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