> 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.
In the same email you replied to, I gave examples of languages for which parsers can be streaming (in general): SCSI or IP. For some languages (eg. everything in the context-free family) streaming parsers are _in general_ impossible, because there are pathological cases like the one with parsing numbers. But this doesn't mean that you cannot come up with a parser that is only useful _sometimes_. And, in practice, languages like XML or JSON do well with streaming, even though in general it's impossible. I'm sorry if this comes as a surprise. On one hand I don't want to sound condescending, on the other hand, this is something that you'd typically study in automata theory class. Well, not exactly in the very same words, but you should be able to figure this stuff out if you had that class. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
