Alexander Boyd

AFN is an umbrella project for software created or contributed to by Alexander Boyd. See AFN's home page for more information on the projects contained within it. Some of the cooler ones are JPath, a JSON query language inspired by XQuery, and Zelden, a multi-protocol client-server (similar to Quassel) chat client.

Parcon is a Python parser combinator and formatter combinator library. It's designed to be fast, easy to use, and provide informative error messages. Parcon is very similar to Pyparsing, but it improves on a lot of things that, in my opinion, Pyparsing does wrong. For example, Parcon's error ... [More] messages are almost always considerably more informative as to why parsing some particular input failed. Parcon can also be used to parse binary protocols. Pargen, Parcon's formatter combinator library, is the opposite of a parser library: it lets you define how objects should be formatted; you then pass in an object and Pargen formats it according to your grammar, and you get a string back. [Less]