a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Steven Taschuk wrote:
> This is a problem because, as Martin has pointed out, the current
> parser and grammar are LL(1);

You need to be careful when making statements like this about
the Python grammar. Python's parser generator is a strange
beast that allows regular expressions in its productions. It's
not immediately obvious what effect this has on the class of
languages it can parse.

It *might* be the case that there is an equivalent LL(1)
grammar for any grammar that pgen can handle, but I can't
think of a proof of this off the top of my head.

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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