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Toy Parser Generator is a lexical and syntactic parser generator
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for Python. This generator was born from a simple statement: YACC
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is to complex to use in simple cases (calculators, configuration
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files, small programming languages, ...).
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TPG can very simply write parsers that are useful for most every
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day needs (even if it can't make your coffee). With a very clear
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and simple syntax, you can write an attributed grammar that is
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translated into a recursive descendant parser. TPG generated code
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is very close to the original grammar. This means that the parser
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works "like" the grammar. A grammar rule can be seen as a method
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of the parser class, symbols as method calls, attributes as method
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parameters and semantic values as return values. You can also add
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Python code directly into grammar rules and build abstract syntax
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trees while parsing.
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