Description
Handling input languages like XML, YAML, or JSON is simple enough, just grab your favorite module and hammer it out. But what should one do when facing a more obscure markup language, configuration file or another artifact of a developer with acute NIH syndrome? In this talk we’ll (quickly) revisit formal languages basics and what can and cannot be parsed. We will then introduce parsimonious, a simple, fast, and economic Parsing Expression Grammar parser written by Eric Rose.
Slides available here: http://il.pycon.org/2016/static/sessions/nati-cohen.pdf