Changelog History
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v4.7 Changes
April 05, 2020๐ Version 2.4.7 - April, 2020
- ๐ Backport of selected fixes from 3.0.0 work:
. Each bug with Regex expressions
. And expressions not properly constructing with generator
. Traceback abbreviation
. Bug in delta_time example
. Fix regexen in pyparsing_common.real and .sci_real
โ . Avoid FutureWarning on Python 3.7 or later
โ . Cleanup output in runTests if comments are embedded in test string
- ๐ Backport of selected fixes from 3.0.0 work:
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v4.6 Changes
December 25, 2019๐ Version 2.4.6 - December, 2019
๐ Fixed typos in White mapping of whitespace characters, to use
correct "\u" prefix instead of "u".๐ Fix bug in left-associative ternary operators defined using
infixNotation. First reported on StackOverflow by user Jeronimo.โ Backport of pyparsing_test namespace from 3.0.0, including
โ TestParseResultsAsserts mixin class defining unittest-helper
methods:
๐ . def assertParseResultsEquals(
self, result, expected_list=None, expected_dict=None, msg=None)
๐ . def assertParseAndCheckList(
self, expr, test_string, expected_list, msg=None, verbose=True)
๐ . def assertParseAndCheckDict(
self, expr, test_string, expected_dict, msg=None, verbose=True)
โ . def assertRunTestResults(
โ self, run_tests_report, expected_parse_results=None, msg=None)
๐ . def assertRaisesParseException(self, exc_type=ParseException, msg=None)โ To use the methods in this mixin class, declare your unittest classes as:
โ from pyparsing import pyparsing_test as ppt
โ class MyParserTest(ppt.TestParseResultsAsserts, unittest.TestCase):
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v4.5 Changes
November 10, 2019๐ Version 2.4.5 - November, 2019
- ๐ Fixed encoding when setup.py reads README.rst to include the
project long description when uploading to PyPI. A stray
unicode space in README.rst prevented the source install on
0๏ธโฃ systems whose default encoding is not 'utf-8'.
- ๐ Fixed encoding when setup.py reads README.rst to include the
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v4.4 Changes
November 05, 2019โ Check-in bug in Pyparsing 2.4.3 that raised UserWarnings was masked by stdout buffering in unit tests - fixed.
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v4.3 Changes
November 04, 2019๐ Version 2.4.3 - November, 2019
๐ (Backport of selected critical items from 3.0.0 development branch.)
Fixed a bug in
ParserElement. __eq__
that would for some parsers create a recursion error at parser definition time. Thanks to Michael Clerx for the assist. (Addresses issue #123)๐ Fixed bug in
indentedBlock
where a block that ended at the end of the input string could cause pyparsing to loop forever. Raised as part of discussion on StackOverflow with geckos.๐ Backports from pyparsing 3.0.0:
.__diag__.enable_all_warnings()
๐ . Fixed bug inPrecededBy
which caused infinite recursion, issue #127
๐ . support for usingregex
-compiled RE to constructRegex
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v4.2 Changes
July 30, 2019๐ Version 2.4.2 - July, 2019
โก๏ธ Updated the shorthand notation that has been added for repetition
expressions: expr[min, max], with '...' valid as a min or max value:- expr[...] and expr[0, ...] are equivalent to ZeroOrMore(expr)
- expr[1, ...] is equivalent to OneOrMore(expr)
- expr[n, ...] or expr[n,] is equivalent
to expr*n + ZeroOrMore(expr)
(read as "n or more instances of expr") - expr[..., n] is equivalent to expr*(0, n)
- expr[m, n] is equivalent to expr*(m, n)
๐ป Note that expr[..., n] and expr[m, n] do not raise an exception
if more than n exprs exist in the input stream. If this
behavior is desired, then write expr[..., n] + ~expr.
๐ Better interpretation of [...] as ZeroOrMore raised by crowsonkb,
thanks for keeping me in line!โฌ๏ธ If upgrading from 2.4.1 or 2.4.1.1 and you have used
expr[...]
โก๏ธ forOneOrMore(expr)
, it must be updated toexpr[1, ...]
.The defaults on all the
__diag__
switches have been set to False,
โ to avoid getting alarming warnings. To use these diagnostics, set
๐ them to True after importing pyparsing.Example:
import pyparsing as pp pp. __diag__.warn_multiple_tokens_in_named_alternation = True
Fixed bug introduced by the use of getitem for repetition,
overlooking Python's legacy implementation of iteration
by sequentially calling getitem with increasing numbers until
getting an IndexError. Found during investigation of problem
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v4.2.a1 Changes
July 25, 2019๐ Release candidate for 2.4.2:
- ๐ FIxes incorrect implementation of expr[โฆ] as OneOrMore, changed to ZeroOrMore
- Fixes
__getitem__
-induced iterability for ParserElement class __diag__
flags are now all False by default
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v4.1.1 Changes
July 25, 2019๐ This is a re-release of version 2.4.1 to restore the release history
๐ in PyPI, since the 2.4.1 release was deleted.๐ There are 3 known issues in this release, which are fixed in
the upcoming 2.4.2:๐ API change adding support for
expr[...]
- the original
code in 2.4.1 incorrectly implemented this as OneOrMore.
Code using this feature under this relase should explicitly
๐ useexpr[0, ...]
for ZeroOrMore andexpr[1, ...]
for
OneOrMore. In 2.4.2 you will be able to writeexpr[...]
equivalent toZeroOrMore(expr)
.๐ Bug if composing And, Or, MatchFirst, or Each expressions
using an expression. This only affects code which uses
explicit expression construction using the And, Or, etc.
classes instead of using overloaded operators '+', '', and
so on. If constructing an And using a single expression,
๐ you may get an error that "cannot multiply ParserElement by
0 or (0, 0)" or a PythonIndexError
. Change code likecmd = Or(Word(alphas))
to
cmd = Or([Word(alphas)])
๐ (Note that this is not the recommended style for constructing
Or expressions.)Some newly-added
__diag__
switches are enabled by default,
โ which may give rise to noisy user warnings for existing parsers.
You can disable them using:import pyparsing as pp pp. __diag__.warn_multiple_tokens_in_named_alternation = False pp. __diag__.warn_ungrouped_named_tokens_in_collection = False pp. __diag__.warn_name_set_on_empty_Forward = False pp. __diag__.warn_on_multiple_string_args_to_oneof = False pp. __diag__.enable_debug_on_named_expressions = False
0๏ธโฃ In 2.4.2 these will all be set to False by default.
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v3.0.0.a2 Changes
June 01, 2020๐ Summary of changes for 3.0.0 can be found in "What's New in Pyparsing 3.0.0" documentation.
API CHANGE Changed result returned when parsing using countedArray, the array items are no longer returned in a doubly-nested list.
An excellent new enhancement is the new railroad diagram generator for documenting pyparsing parsers:
import pyparsing as pp from pyparsing.diagram import to_railroad, railroad_to_html from pathlib import Path # define a simple grammar for parsing street addresses such # as "123 Main Street" # number word... number = pp.Word(pp.nums).setName("number") name = pp.Word(pp.alphas).setName("word")[1, ...] parser = number("house_number") + name("street") parser.setName("street address") # construct railroad track diagram for this parser and # save as HTML rr = to_railroad(parser) Path('parser_rr_diag.html').write_text(railroad_to_html(rr))
Very nice work provided by Michael Milton, thanks a ton!
โจ Enhanced default strings created for Word expressions, now showing string ranges if possible.
Word(alphas)
would formerly print asW:(ABCD...)
, now prints asW:(A-Za-z)
.โ Added ignoreWhitespace(recurse:bool = True) and added a recurse argument to leaveWhitespace, both added to provide finer control over pyparsing's whitespace skipping. Also contributed by Michael Milton.
The unicode range definitions for the various languages were recalculated by interrogating the unicodedata module by character name, selecting characters that contained that language in their Unicode name. (Issue #227)
Also, pyparsing_unicode.Korean was renamed to Hangul (Korean is also defined as a synonym for compatibility).
โจ Enhanced ParseResults dump() to show both results names and list subitems. Fixes bug where adding a results name would hide lower-level structures in the ParseResults.
Added new diag warnings:
"warn_on_parse_using_empty_Forward" - warns that a Forward has been included in a grammar, but no expression was attached to it using '<<=' or '<<'
"warn_on_assignment_to_Forward" - warns that a Forward has been created, but was probably later overwritten by erroneously using '=' instead of '<<=' (this is a common mistake when using Forwards) (currently not working on PyPy)
โ Added ParserElement.recurse() method to make it simpler for grammar utilities to navigate through the tree of expressions in a pyparsing grammar.
๐ Fixed bug in ParseResults repr() which showed all matching entries for a results name, even if listAllMatches was set to False when creating the ParseResults originally. Reported by Nicholas42 on GitHub, good catch! (Issue #205)
๐จ Modified refactored modules to use relative imports, as pointed out by setuptools project member jaraco, thank you!
Off-by-one bug found in the roman_numerals.py example, a bug that has been there for about 14 years! PR submitted by Jay Pedersen, nice catch!
๐ A simplified Lua parser has been added to the examples (lua_parser.py).
โ Added make_diagram.py to the examples directory to demonstrate creation of railroad diagrams for selected pyparsing examples. Also restructured some examples to make their parsers importable without running their embedded tests.
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v3.0.0.a1 Changes
April 01, 2020- โ Removed Py2.x support and other deprecated features. Pyparsing now requires Python 3.5 or later. If you are using an earlier version of Python, you must use a Pyparsing 2.4.x version
Deprecated features removed: . ParseResults.asXML() - if used for debugging, switch to using ParseResults.dump(); if used for data transfer, use ParseResults.asDict() to convert to a nested Python dict, which can then be converted to XML or JSON or other transfer format
. operatorPrecedence synonym for infixNotation - convert to calling infixNotation
. commaSeparatedList - convert to using pyparsing_common.comma_separated_list
. upcaseTokens and downcaseTokens - convert to using pyparsing_common.upcaseTokens and downcaseTokens
. compat.collect_all_And_tokens will not be settable to False to revert to pre-2.3.1 results name behavior - review use of names for MatchFirst and Or expressions containing And expressions, as they will return the complete list of parsed tokens, not just the first one. Use
__diag__.warn_multiple_tokens_in_named_alternation
to help identify those expressions in your parsers that will have changed as a result.โ Removed support for running
python setup.py test
. The setuptools maintainers consider the test command deprecated (see https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1684). To run the Pyparsing test, use the commandtox
.API CHANGE: The staticmethod
ParseException.explain
has been moved toParseBaseException.explain_exception
, and a newexplain
instance method added to ParseBaseException. This will make calls toexplain
much more natural:try: expr.parseString("...") except ParseException as pe: print(pe.explain())
POTENTIAL API CHANGE: ZeroOrMore expressions that have results names will now include empty lists for their name if no matches are found. Previously, no named result would be present. Code that tested for the presence of any expressions using "if name in results:" will now always return True. This code will need to change to "if name in results and results[name]:" or just "if results[name]:". Also, any parser unit tests that check the asDict() contents will now see additional entries for parsers having named ZeroOrMore expressions, whose values will be
[]
.POTENTIAL API CHANGE: Fixed a bug in which calls to ParserElement.setDefaultWhitespaceChars did not change whitespace definitions on any pyparsing built-in expressions defined at import time (such as quotedString, or those defined in pyparsing_common). This would lead to confusion when built-in expressions would not use updated default whitespace characters. Now a call to ParserElement.setDefaultWhitespaceChars will also go and update all pyparsing built-ins to use the new default whitespace characters. (Note that this will only modify expressions defined within the pyparsing module.) Prompted by work on a StackOverflow question posted by jtiai.
Expanded diag and compat to actual classes instead of just namespaces, to add some helpful behavior:
enable() and .disable() methods to give extra help when setting or clearing flags (detects invalid flag names, detects when trying to set a compat flag that is no longer settable). Use these methods now to set or clear flags, instead of directly setting to True or False.
import pyparsing as pp pp.diag.enable("warn_multiple_tokens_in_named_alternation")
diag.enable_all_warnings() is another helper that sets all "warn*" diagnostics to True.
pp.diag.enable_all_warnings()
added new warning, "warn_on_match_first_with_lshift_operator" to warn when using '<<' with a '|' MatchFirst operator, which will create an unintended expression due to precedence of operations.
Example: This statement will erroneously define the
fwd
expression as justexpr_a
, even thoughexpr_a | expr_b
was intended, since '<<' operator has precedence over '|':fwd << expr_a | expr_b
To correct this, use the '<<=' operator (preferred) or parentheses to override operator precedence:
fwd <<= expr_a | expr_b or fwd << (expr_a | expr_b)
๐ Cleaned up default tracebacks when getting a ParseException when calling parseString. Exception traces should now stop at the call in parseString, and not include the internal traceback frames. (If the full traceback is desired, then set ParserElement.verbose_traceback to True.)
๐ Fixed FutureWarnings that sometimes are raised when '[' passed as a character to Word.
๐ New namespace, assert methods and classes added to support writing unit tests.
- assertParseResultsEquals
- assertParseAndCheckList
- assertParseAndCheckDict
- assertRunTestResults
- assertRaisesParseException
- reset_pyparsing_context context manager, to restore pyparsing config settings
โจ Enhanced error messages and error locations when parsing fails on the Keyword or CaselessKeyword classes due to the presence of a preceding or trailing keyword character. Surfaced while working with metaperl on issue #201.
โจ Enhanced the Regex class to be compatible with re's compiled with the re-equivalent regex module. Individual expressions can be built with regex compiled expressions using:
import pyparsing as pp import regex
would use regex for this expression
integer_parser = pp.Regex(regex.compile(r'\d+'))
Inspired by PR submitted by bjrnfrdnnd on GitHub, very nice!
๐ Fixed handling of ParseSyntaxExceptions raised as part of Each expressions, when sub-expressions contain '-' backtrack suppression. As part of resolution to a question posted by John Greene on StackOverflow.
Potentially huge performance enhancement when parsing Word expressions built from pyparsing_unicode character sets. Word now internally converts ranges of consecutive characters to regex character ranges (converting "0123456789" to "0-9" for instance), resulting in as much as 50X improvement in performance! Work inspired by a question posted by Midnighter on StackOverflow.
๐ Improvements in select_parser.py, to include new SQL syntax from SQLite. PR submitted by Robert Coup, nice work!
๐ Fixed bug in PrecededBy which caused infinite recursion, issue #127 submitted by EdwardJB.
๐ Fixed bug in CloseMatch where end location was incorrectly computed; and updated partial_gene_match.py example.
๐ Fixed bug in indentedBlock with a parser using two different types of nested indented blocks with different indent values, but sharing the same indent stack, submitted by renzbagaporo.
๐ Fixed bug in Each when using Regex, when Regex expression would get parsed twice; issue #183 submitted by scauligi, thanks!
๐ BigQueryViewParser.py added to examples directory, PR submitted by Michael Smedberg, nice work!
๐ booleansearchparser.py added to examples directory, PR submitted by xecgr. Builds on searchparser.py, adding support for '*' wildcards and non-Western alphabets.
๐ Fixed bug in delta_time.py example, when using a quantity of seconds/minutes/hours/days > 999.
๐ Fixed bug in regex definitions for real and sci_real expressions in pyparsing_common. Issue #194, reported by Michael Wayne Goodman, thanks!
๐ Fixed FutureWarning raised beginning in Python 3.7 for Regex expressions containing '[' within a regex set.
โ Minor reformatting of output from runTests to make embedded comments more visible.
And finally, many thanks to those who helped in the restructuring of the pyparsing code base as part of this release. Pyparsing now has more standard package structure, more standard unit tests, and more standard code formatting (using black). Special thanks to jdufresne, klahnakoski, mattcarmody, and ckeygusuz, to name just a few.