Python's BNF

[MartinRinehart]

I spent too long Googling for Python's BNF. Eventually found it at
Python.org, but only by accident.

I've put Python's BNF here: http://www.martinrinehart.com/articl...parse-bnf.html

Extensively cross-referenced.

Addenda:

No, Google, I didn't want the Botswana daily news with its article on
the Botswana
National Front and another on a fellow arrested for having contraband
python skins.

Did this with a Python program. Used to use Perl for this sort of
thing. Doubt I'll ever write another line of Perl.

There's a link to the program, top-right of page. If anyone wants to
look at this no-longer-quite-newbie's code and give a constructive
critique, I'd be grateful.

[Arnaud Delobelle]

On Feb 27, 5:23*pm, [e-mail] wrote:

I spent too long Googling for Python's BNF. Eventually found it at
Python.org, but only by accident.

http://www.google.com/search?q=python+grammar

--
Arnaud

[Ben Finney]

Ma************@gmail.com writes:

No, Google, I didn't want the Botswana daily news with its article
on the Botswana National Front and another on a fellow arrested for
having contraband python skins.

+1 QOTW

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Ben Finney

[MartinRinehart]

Thanks so much Gabriel.

[MartinRinehart]

Steve Holden wrote:

I wish you'd stop trying to defend this code and simply admit that it's
just a throwaway program to which no real significance should be
attached. *Then* I'll leave you alone ;-)

You're hurting my program's feelings!

Actually, I intend to keep this program as the nice HTML version of
the BNF that it produces is a big advance over the source from
GvR. I'll rerun this from time to time to keep my BNF up to date.
A second intent was to have the next sorry coder who searched for
'Python BNF' get a better answer than I got, which is already the
case.

The discussion re globals is entirely academic, of course, with this
little program being merely illustrative.