Parsing TCL?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <yv24rs82ipr.fsf at lionsp093.lion-ag.de>,
Harald Kirsch  <kirschh at lionbioscience.com> wrote:
>Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
>
>>     Roy> I know this is probably a strange request, but does anybody know of
>>     Roy> a python module which parses TCL files?
>> 
>> No, but isn't Tcl essentially just
>> 
>>     command arg arg arg arg
>> 
>Except that arg may be "arg" or {arg} or [arg] or $arg and those special
>characters as well as backslash and some others have to be treated
>within. In fact even command may be "command" or [command] or
>{command} or $command, but this is not for beginners:-)
>
>> ?  I thought it was designed to be extremely easy to parse.  Shouldn't be
>> hard to write a parser for it I wouldn't think.
>
>Nevertheless you are right. The whole syntax *plus evaluation
>semantics* is described in 11 points in a man-page of 208 lines.
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Does someone seriously want to pursue this?  A
quick fix would be to use one of the Tcl-Python
combinations, and let the Tcl part do the pars-
ing (or lexification, as one might argue is
closer to the point).
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