Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-30 Thread Peter Hansen
Terry Reedy wrote: > "Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Christopher Subich wrote: >>>"The horse raced past the barn fell." >>> >>>It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where something that >>>occurs late in the sentence needs to trigger a reparse of the entire >>>sentence. >> >>I

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Holden
Bengt Richter wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:39:51 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > The computer at CMU is pretty good at parsing. You can try it at > http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/submit-sentence-4.html > > Here's what it did with "The horse raced past the barn fel

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-30 Thread Bengt Richter
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:39:51 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Christopher Subich wrote: >> Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider >> the sentence: >> >> "The horse raced past the barn fell." >> >> It's just one of many "garden path sentences," whe

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-30 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:39:51 -0500 in comp.lang.python, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Christopher Subich wrote: >> Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider >> the sentence: >> >> "The horse raced past the barn fell." >> >> It's just one of many "garden

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-30 Thread Terry Reedy
"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Christopher Subich wrote: >> Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider >> the sentence: >> >> "The horse raced past the barn fell." >> >> It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-30 Thread Peter Hansen
Christopher Subich wrote: > Using English, because that's the only language I'm fluent in, consider > the sentence: > > "The horse raced past the barn fell." > > It's just one of many "garden path sentences," where something that > occurs late in the sentence needs to trigger a reparse of the e

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-30 Thread Christopher Subich
Anton Vredegoor wrote: > And pave the way for a natural language parser. Maybe there's even some > (sketchy) path now to link computer languages and natural languages. In > my mind Python has always been closer to human languages than other > programming languages. From what I learned about it, lan

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-29 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Paul McGuire wrote: > There are two types of parsers: design-driven and data-driven. With > design-driven parsing, you start with a BNF that defines your language or > data format, and then construct the corresponding grammar parser. As the > design evolves and expands (new features, keywords, a

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-28 Thread Paul McGuire
"Anton Vredegoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I like your article and pyparsing. But since you ask for comments I'll > give some. For unchanging datafile formats pyparsing seems to be OK. > But for highly volatile data like videotext pages or maybe some html > tabl

Re: "Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-28 Thread Anton Vredegoor
Paul McGuire wrote: > I just published my first article on ONLamp, a beginner's walkthrough for > pyparsing. > > Please check it out at > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/01/26/pyparsing.html, and be sure to > post any questions or comments. I like your article and pyparsing. But since you

"Intro to Pyparsing" Article at ONLamp

2006-01-26 Thread Paul McGuire
I just published my first article on ONLamp, a beginner's walkthrough for pyparsing. Please check it out at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/01/26/pyparsing.html, and be sure to post any questions or comments. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list