dsl - Mini-languages in Python

Question

I'm after creating a simple mini-language parser in Python, programming close to the problem domain and all that.

Anyway, I was wondering how the people on here would go around doing that - what are the preferred ways of doing this kind of thing in Python?

I'm not going to give specific details of what I'm after because at the moment I'm just investigating how easy this whole field is in Python.

Thanks for your input!

Answer 1

Pyparsing is handy for writing "little languages". I gave a presentation at PyCon'06 on writing a simple adventure game engine, in which the language being parsed and interpreted was the game command set ("inventory", "take sword", "drop book", etc.). (Source code here.)

You can also find links to other pyparsing articles at the pyparsing wiki.