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doing a language at least teaches you something.*

`Dennis Ritchie`_ (1941-2011) Creator of the C_ programming
language and of Unix_

|TatSu|

|TatSu| is a tool that takes grammars in a variation of EBNF_ as input, and outputs memoizing_ (Packrat) PEG parsers in Python_.

Why use a PEG_ parser? Because regular languages_ (those parsable with Python's re package) "cannot count". Any language with nested structures or with balancing of demarcations requires more than regular expressions to be parsed.

|TatSu| can compile a grammar stored in a string into a tatsu.grammars.Grammar object that can be used to parse any given input, much like the re_ module does with regular expressions, or it can generate a Python_ module that implements the parser.

|TatSu| supports left-recursive_ rules in PEG_ grammars using the algorithm_ by Laurent and Mens. The generated AST_ has the expected left associativity.

|TatSu| requires a maintained version of Python (3.11+ at the moment). While no code in |TatSu| yet depends on new language or standard library features, the authors don't want to be constrained by Python version compatibility considerations when developing features that will be part of future releases.

.. _algorithm: http://norswap.com/pubs/sle2016.pdf

Installation

.. code-block:: bash

$ pip install TatSu

Using the Tool

|TatSu| can be used as a library, much like Python's re, by embedding grammars as strings and generating grammar models instead of generating Python code.

This compiles the grammar and generates an in-memory parser that can subsequently be used for parsing input with.

.. code-block:: python

parser = tatsu.compile(grammar)

Compiles the grammar and parses the given input producing an AST_ as result.

.. code-block:: python

ast = tatsu.parse(grammar, input)

The result is equivalent to calling:

.. code-block:: python

parser = compile(grammar)
ast = parser.parse(input)

Compiled grammars are cached for efficiency.

This compiles the grammar to the Python_ sourcecode that implements the parser.

.. code-block:: python

parser_source = tatsu.to_python_sourcecode(grammar)

This is an example of how to use |TatSu| as a library:

.. code-block:: python

GRAMMAR = '''
    @@grammar::CALC


    start = expression $ ;


    expression
        =
        | expression '+' term
        | expression '-' term
        | term
        ;


    term
        =
        | term '*' factor
        | term '/' factor
        | factor
        ;


    factor
        =
        | '(' expression ')'
        | number
        ;


    number = /\d+/ ;
'''


if __name__ == '__main__':
    import json
    from tatsu import parse
    from tatsu.util import asjson

    ast = parse(GRAMMAR, '3 + 5 * ( 10 - 20 )')
    print(json.dumps(asjson(ast), indent=2))

..

|TatSu| will use the first rule defined in the grammar as the start rule.

This is the output:

.. code-block:: console

[
  "3",
  "+",
  [
    "5",
    "*",
    [
      "10",
      "-",
      "20"
    ]
  ]
]

Documentation

For a detailed explanation of what |TatSu| is capable of, please see the documentation_.

.. _documentation: http://tatsu.readthedocs.io/

Questions?

Please use the [tatsu]_ tag on StackOverflow_ for general Q&A, and limit Github issues to bugs, enhancement proposals, and feature requests.

.. _[tatsu]: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/tatsu/info

Changes

See the RELEASES_ for details.

License

You may use |TatSu| under the terms of the BSD-style license described in the enclosed LICENSE.txt file. If your project requires different licensing please email_.

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