parce 0.8.0

The parce lexer

import parce

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This Python package, parce, can be used for parsing text into tokens using one of the supplied language definitions in the lang directory, or building your own language definitions and parse text using them.

The parce module is designed to be very fast, while being written in pure Python, using native data structures as much as possible. Parsing can be done in a background thread.

A powerful feature of parce is that you can retokenize only modified parts of a text if you already have tokenized it. This makes parce suitable for text editors etc. that need to keep a tokenized structure of the text up-to-date e.g. to support syntax highlighting as you type.

The module is written and maintained by Wilbert Berendsen. Python 3.5 and higher is supported. Besides Python itself there are no other dependencies. Testing is done by running pytest-3 in the root directory.

The logo is a public domain tree image with the name in the Gentium italic font. Why the name? It’s short, sounds like ‘parse’, and has the meaning of “friend”, “buddy”, “bro.” :-)