Scanner class

[George Sakkis]

Is there any stdlib or (more likely) 3rd party module that provides a
similar functionality to the java.util.Scanner class [1] ? If not,
would there be any interest in porting it (with a more Pythonic API of
course) or are there better alternatives ?

George

[1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html

 

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Is there any stdlib or (more likely) 3rd party module that provides a
similar functionality to the java.util.Scanner class [1] ? If not,
would there be any interest in porting it (with a more Pythonic API of
course) or are there better alternatives ?

George

[1] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html

Have you looked at:
<class re.Scanner at 0x759f0>

Last time I checked it was undocumented though, although I vaguely
recall a Cookbook recipe. Ah here it is:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/457664/

HTH

 

[George Sakkis]

Is there any stdlib or (more likely) 3rd party module that provides a
similar functionality to the java.util.Scanner class [1] ? If not,
would there be any interest in porting it (with a more Pythonic API of
course) or are there better alternatives ?

George

[1]http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html

Have you looked at:

<class re.Scanner at 0x759f0>

Last time I checked it was undocumented though, although I vaguely
recall a Cookbook recipe.  Ah here it is:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/457664/

Thanks, didn't know about it. I also found Plex [1] which seems more
powerful.

George

[1] http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Plex/version/doc/index.html

 

[Arnaud Delobelle]

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/457664/

Thanks, didn't know about it. I also found Plex [1] which seems more
powerful.

George

[1] http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Plex/version/doc/index.html

I've also written a python module that aims to be similar to GNU flex.
You can see it here:

http://www.marooned.org.uk/~arno/python/lexing.html

It's not extremely sophisticated but it's quite easy to use. I've
written a Python 3 tokeniser in it