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a modern parsing library

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Lark is a modern general-purpose parsing library for Python.

With Lark, you can parse any context-free grammar, efficiently, with very little code.

Main Features:
  • Builds a parse-tree (AST) automagically, based on the structure of the grammar

  • Earley parser
    • Can parse all context-free grammars

    • Full support for ambiguous grammars

  • LALR(1) parser
    • Fast and light, competitive with PLY

    • Can generate a stand-alone parser

  • CYK parser, for highly ambiguous grammars

  • EBNF grammar

  • Unicode fully supported

  • Python 2 & 3 compatible

  • Automatic line & column tracking

  • Standard library of terminals (strings, numbers, names, etc.)

  • Import grammars from Nearley.js

  • Extensive test suite

  • And much more!

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