Hello everybody. I'm kind of new to Python. I'm working on a simple text parser that will allow me to transform a certain syntax into a certain output. I find wikis interesting, so wiki to HTML parsing is one of the things that I want to accomplish (I'm not actually writing a whole wiki, that's complex, but I'm only trying to get basic text conversion going on).
Presently, I'm thinking of putting the (simple, regexp-driven) filters in a module called "parsers", and then make a "handlers" module that allows for the actual transformation. So, for example, one parser would be a separate class (WikiParser) which would have an attribute called "emph" (emphasis) which is a string '\*\*(.+?)\*\*'. Then a handler class (HTMLHandler) would have an attribute called "emph" which is a string '<em>\\1</em>'. Then the regular expressions would be generated via a chosen parser/handler combination. This to make it easy to change things around later. My question to you: is this the right way to go about it? My parser doesn't really need to do all that much, but I would like for it to be easily changeable by editing a single file. Thanks for any help! Greets, Michiel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list