[anton muhin]
Can someone give an overview of existing Python parser generators?
[...] I'm rather looking for convenience and expressiveness.
Hello, Anton.
I looked at a few, but did not look at them all, and finally settled for
SPARK for production. (I do not fully understand why a few generators
which were written after SPARK did not at least recycle its elegance.)
SPARK is not blazing fast, but is not inordinately slow either, _given_
you write reasonable grammars. By "reasonable", I do not mean small,
we indeed use some rather big ones here. But I mean grammars which are
rather left-to-right-ly, and for which big inputs could be chumped into
smaller syntactical units at lexical time. In that way, each of the
repeated call to a SPARK parser in an application is not given the whole
input -- we found out that this is worth, and usually easy to do. Our
parsers are easy to maintain and very dependable. We are happy with it.
--
François Pinard
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard