SPARK v.s. PLY

[Alan Kennedy]

[Tran Tuan Anh]
> I am searching for a suitable parsing tool to parse C++ for a research
> project.

and

> If you know the parsing stuff well, could you briefly tell me the
> pros. and cons. of those packages? (or some others you find good too)

You might find Martin von Loewis paper "Towards a Standard Parser 
Generator" useful. It discusses the pros and cons of multiple python 
parser frameworks, in the concrete context of implementing xpath 
expression parsing. It discusses SPARK, but not PLY.

http://www.python.org/sigs/parser-sig/towards-standard.html

regards,

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alan kennedy
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