"Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello all, > > I'm writing a module that takes user input as strings and (effectively) > translates them to function calls with arguments and keyword > arguments.to pass a list I use a sort of 'list constructor' - so the > syntax looks a bit like : > > checkname(arg1, "arg 2", 'arg 3', keywarg="value", > keywarg2='value2', default=list("val1", 'val2')) > > Worst case anyway :-) >
pyparsing is great, easy to configure and very powerful--I think it looks like a great tool for your inputs. http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net/ --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
