I am trying to pass a list as an argument to a command line program. Is there an argparse option to pass a list as option? parser.add_argument ('-l', '--list', type=list, acti...

Mar 6, 2015 · HTTP is a (primarily) text based (i.e. - human readable) protocol. As such a computer program needs to interpret the text according to HTTP's syntax to extract its …

Are lexers and parsers really that different in theory? It seems fashionable to hate regular expressions: coding horror, another blog post. However, popular lexing based tools: …

Mar 28, 2018 · 202 I am looking for a clear definition of what a "tokenizer", "parser" and "lexer" are and how they are related to each other (e.g., does a parser use a tokenizer or vice versa)? …

In Java, What exactly is Parsing? Why are they used? For example: Integer.parseInt(...), and parsing a string?

Dec 17, 2009 · A parser would check for the syntax of sentences being correct, though. And the lexer might already look into a dictionary to see whether the words are made up or are indeed …

What's the easiest, tersest, and most flexible method or library for parsing Python command line arguments?

Which parsers are available for parsing C# code? I'm looking for a C# parser that can be used in C# and give me access to line and file informations about each artefact of the analysed code.

Sep 11, 2011 · How do I go about writing a Parser (Recursive Descent?) in C#? For now I just want a simple parser that parses arithmetic expressions (and reads variables?). Though later I …

I would like to use argparse to parse boolean command-line arguments written as "--foo True" or "--foo False". For example: my_program --my_boolean_flag False However, the following test …