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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> +</ul> +<p>The parser should be compatible with the old one.</p> +</section> +</section> + + + <div class="clearer"></div> + </div> + </div> + </div> + <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> + <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> + <h3><a href="index.html">Table of Contents</a></h3> + <ul> +<li><a class="reference internal" href="#">The new Python parser</a><ul> +<li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +</ul> + + <h4>Previous topic</h4> + <p class="topless"><a href="parser-puppetManifest.html" + title="previous chapter">puppetManifest parser</a></p> + <h4>Next topic</h4> + <p class="topless"><a href="parser-tcl.html" + title="next chapter">The new Tcl parser</a></p> +<div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> + <h3 id="searchlabel">Quick search</h3> + <div class="searchformwrapper"> + <form class="search" action="search.html" method="get"> + <input type="text" name="q" aria-labelledby="searchlabel" /> + <input type="submit" value="Go" /> + </form> + </div> +</div> +<script>$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> + </div> + </div> + <div class="clearer"></div> + </div> + <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> + <h3>Navigation</h3> + <ul> + <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> + <a href="genindex.html" title="General Index" + >index</a></li> + <li class="right" > + <a href="parser-tcl.html" title="The new Tcl parser" + >next</a> |</li> + <li class="right" > + <a href="parser-puppetManifest.html" title="puppetManifest parser" + >previous</a> |</li> + <li class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="index.html">Universal Ctags 0.3.0 documentation</a> »</li> + <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="parsers.html" >Parsers</a> »</li> + <li class="nav-item nav-item-this"><a href="">The new Python parser</a></li> + </ul> + </div> + <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> + © Copyright 2015, Universal Ctags Team. + Last updated on 11 Jun 2021. + Created using <a href="https://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 4.0.2. + </div> + </body> +</html>
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