unitracker-grammar

The canonical unitracker document as a Lark grammar, with an LALR parser for it and the note table its expressions read as F(k), and the modulator expression language: checked, printed in its one text and compiled to Python.

A document names no player. It holds everything it plays: instruments, programs, expressions, phrases and the tables its expressions index. Its only constants are the note table at its clock and the header defaults (PAL clock, 3 voices, tempo 6).

Install

pip install "unitracker-grammar @ git+https://github.com/anarkiwi/unitracker-grammar"

Use

from unitracker_grammar import parse, CanonicalError, frequency, table
tree = parse(text)        # a lark.Tree, or CanonicalError naming the line and column
frequency(57)             # F(57): A4 at the PAL clock
table(clock_hz=1022727)   # F(k) for every note whose word fits, from C0, at NTSC

parser() is the cached lark.Lark parser and GRAMMAR the grammar file resource.

Expressions

unitracker_grammar.expr owns the modulator expression language. An expression is a stdlib ast node, read from a text by tree or from a parse tree's expr and fexpr rules by the Nodes transformer.

from unitracker_grammar import expr, frequency
expr.canonical("1024 + 16*min(3, φ)")       # '16*min(3, φ) + 1024', its one text
fn = expr.compile_expr("v + W[φ]", {"_F": frequency, "_T": {"W": expr.indexed([1, 2])}})
fn(10, 1, 48)                               # (v, φ, N) -> 12

source is the Python source of an expression (ExpressionError outside the grammar), printed the one text of a node and written an integer literal as an int. // and % raise ZeroDivisionError on a divisor of 0; with zero=True they are 0.

Grammar

src/unitracker_grammar/canonical.lark; the document format and the meaning of each construct are described in unitracker's docs/format.