A parser combinator may be more powerful? Not sure. The python parsec package is really terribly documented, but there's a good example here: http://www.valu

A parser combinator may be more powerful? Not sure. The python parsec package is really terribly documented, but there's a good example here: http://www.valuedlessons.com/2008/02/pysec-monadic-combinatoric-parsing-in.html http://www.valuedlessons.com/2008/02/pysec-monadic-combinato... EDIT: The name of the package may have changed; it looks like this is the pypi package being documented (if not; i'm confused because pypi's pysec package is something totally different): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/parsec https://pypi.python.org/pypi/parsec