Download or read book Getting Started with Pyparsing written by Paul McGuire and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need to extract data from a text file or aweb page? Or do you want to make yourapplication more flexible with user-definedcommands or search strings? Doregular expressions and lex/yacc makeyour eyes blur and your brain hurt? Pyparsing could be the solution. Pyparsingis a pure-Python class library thatmakes it easy to build recursive-descentparsers quickly. There is no need tohandcraft your own parsing state machine.With pyparsing, you can quicklycreate HTML page scrapers, logfile dataextractors, or complex data structure orcommand processors. This Short Cutshows you how!