Docs Articles Blog posts

This page will carry links to other online articles and blog posts that talk about or have tutorial info on pyparsing.

• Kamon Ayeva and Sakis Kasampalis, "Mastering Python Design Patterns, 2d Ed.", Packt Publishing, 2018 book - Illustrates the Interpreter pattern with a simple home device control command language

• Mark Summerfield, "Programming in Python 3, 2d Ed.", Addison-Wesley, 2010 book - Chapter on parsing includes an verview of pyparsing (with a comparative section for PLY), and a toy language for music playlists.

• Wikipedia - article on Scannerless Parsing

• Dan Lamanna - Building Search DSLs with Django - nice walkthrough building up a small search parser that uses a parse action to convert ParseResults to Django Q objects

• Scott Johnson - Parsing Oracle TNS Files in Python

• Pantelis Vratsalis - Parsing a mini query language with python and pyparsing

• Zach Todd @zchtodd - Building Parsers for fun and profit with Pyparsing

• Riccardo Pucella http://rpucella.net/ - Coursework for ENGR3599A Programming Languages at Olin College of Engineering

  • Course website with links to lecture slides and course code handouts

• Harish Thyagarajan - Build Slack Bot CLI using Context Free Grammar and Pyparsing

• Davis Yoshida - AsyncBots - AsyncBots provides an asyncio based interface for writing Slack Real Time Messaging () chat bots

  • GitHub repo

• Roberto Alsina - Creating Languages for Dummies

  • blog post
  • video (Spanish)

• Noah Gilmore - Syntax Trees with Pyparsing

• Julius Seporaitis - Step-by-step creation of a simple PGN (chess notation) parser

• Redouane Zait - Flexible date arguments using argparse and pyparsing

• Yelp Engineering - Undebt automated refactoring utility

  • GitHub repo

• Andrew J Lawrence - Pyparsing workshop materials from PyCon UK September, 2018

  • GitHub repo

• ViperMonkey v0.07 released: A VBA parser and emulation engine to analyze malicious macros

  • package by Phillip Lagadec - http://www.decalage.info

• Vladimir Iakovlev - Parse Shell One-liners with Pyparsing

  • GitHub repo

• Siddharta Govindaraj - Creating Domain Specific Languages in Python, presented at PyConIndia 2011

  • online slides | PDF
  • code gist

• C. Titus Brown - Intermediate and Advanced Software Carpentry, course at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, June, 2007

  • online slides

• SciPy Cookbook example - Reading Custom Text Files with Pyparsing

• Close.io blog - Sales data search: Writing a query parser/AST using pyparsing + Elasticsearch

  • Part I
  • Part II

• Paul McGuire's Things Python blog

  • Parsing superscript exponents
  • Pyparsing Walkthrough - Letter Ranges

• Paul McGuire presentations

  • "Writing Parsers in Python Using Pyparsing", presented at the Austin Python Users' Group, May, 2016
  • "An Interactive Adventure Game Engine Built Using Pyparsing", presented at PyCon 2006 in Dallas, Texas (and some nice comments in a post-conference writeup)