http://simonwillison.net/2008-07-19T23:37:59+00:00Simon Willison2008-07-19T23:37:59+00:002008-07-19T23:37:59+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Jul/19/simple/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://effbot.org/zone/simple-top-down-parsing.htm">Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python</a></strong></p> Eye-opening tutorial on building a recursive descent parser for Python, in Python that uses top-down operator precedence. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/compilers">compilers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/effbot">effbot</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/fredrik-lundh">fredrik-lundh</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/parsing">parsing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recursivedescent">recursivedescent</a></p>