Small discussion and evaluation of different parsers.

• ["shlex"] (http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-shlex.html)

• ["Plex"] (http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Plex)

• SimpleParse (http://simpleparse.sourceforge.net/)

• ["Spark"] (http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/spark/)

• ["Yapps"] (http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/Yapps/)

• ["PyLR"] (http://starship.python.net/crew/scott/PyLR.html)

• ["kwParsing"] (http://www.pythonpros.com/arw/kwParsing/kwParsing.html)

• PyBison (http://www-db.stanford.edu/~hassan/Python/pybison.tar.gz)

• ["Trap"] (http://www.first.gmd.de/smile/trap/)

• ["PLY"] (http://systems.cs.uchicago.edu/ply/)

• ToyParserGenerator (http://christophe.delord.free.fr/en/tpg/)

• ["Martel"] (http://biopython.org/~dalke/Martel/)

• ["FlexModule and BisonModule"] (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mcguire/software/fbmodule/)

TextTools by Marc-André Lemburg ("mx") is not exactly a parser like we're used to, but it is a fast text-processing engine: http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxTextTools.html

Also see Python ParserSig @ http://www.python.org/sigs/parser-sig/ to discuss and select a standard parser generator for Python.

For some speed up one may use other parser generator systems and plug them in as modules.

For example:

• ["ANTLR"] (http://www.antlr.org/) generates C++ output (an older version with C output also available)

• ["Spirit"] (http://spirit.sourceforge.net/) framework for writing EBNF as C++ code