python LEX

[Mike Meyer]

Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at zoran.com> writes:

> Hello jozo,
>
>> I have to work on python lexical definition in Lex. I spent lots of my
>> time to find regular expresions written for Lex of Python language but
>> nothing.
>> Can somebody help me?
> http://www.antlr.org/grammar/list (search for Python)
>
> You can search in projects like Pyrex and Parrot for their parser
> implementation.

The python grammar is included with the Python sources, and is used
to build the compiler.

> HTH.

Trouble is, he wants a lexer, not a parser. The lexer in the sources
is an ad-hoc package, contained in Parser/tokenizer.c.

   <mike
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