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+<span id="python"></span><h1>The new Python parser<a class="headerlink" href="#the-new-python-parser" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
+<dl class="field-list simple">
+<dt class="field-odd">Maintainer</dt>
+<dd class="field-odd"><p>Colomban Wendling &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:ban&#37;&#52;&#48;herbesfolles&#46;org">ban<span>&#64;</span>herbesfolles<span>&#46;</span>org</a>&gt;</p>
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+<section id="introduction">
+<h2>Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<p>The old Python parser was a line-oriented parser that grew way beyond
+its capabilities, and ended up riddled with hacks and easily fooled by
+perfectly valid input. By design, it especially had problems dealing
+with constructs spanning multiple lines, like triple-quoted strings
+or implicitly continued lines; but several less tricky constructs were
+also mishandled, and handling of lexical constructs was duplicated and
+each clone evolved in its own direction, supporting different features
+and having different bugs depending on the location.</p>
+<p>All this made it very hard to fix some existing bugs, or add new
+features. To fix this regrettable state of things, the parser has been
+rewritten from scratch separating lexical analysis (generating tokens)
+from syntactical analysis (understanding what the lexemes mean).
+This moves understanding lexemes to a single location, making it
+consistent and easier to extend with new lexemes, and lightens the
+burden on the parsing code making it more concise, robust and clear.</p>
+<p>This rewrite allowed to quite easily fix all known bugs of the old
+parser, and add many new features, including:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><p>Tagging function parameters</p></li>
+<li><p>Extraction of decorators</p></li>
+<li><p>Proper handling of semicolons</p></li>
+<li><p>Extracting multiple variables in a combined declaration</p></li>
+<li><p>More accurate support of mixed indentation</p></li>
+<li><p>Tagging local variables</p></li>
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+<p>The parser should be compatible with the old one.</p>
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