On 1/10/24 8:34 am, Left Right wrote:
You probably forgot that it has to be _streaming_. Suppose you parse the first digit: can you hand this information over to an external function to process the parsed data? -- No! because you don't know the magnitude yet.
By that definition of "streaming", no parser can ever be streaming, because there will be some constructs that must be read in their entirety before a suitably-structured piece of output can be emitted. The context of this discussion about integers is the claim that they *could* be parsed incrementally if they were written little endian instead of big endian, but the same argument applies either way. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
