Getting Started with Pyparsing

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,