Writing a compiler for a DSL in python

Question

I am writing a game in python and have decided to create a DSL for the map data files. I know I could write my own parser with regex, but I am wondering if there are existing py

Answer 1

For "small languages" as the one you are describing, I use a simple split, shlex (mind that the # defines a comment) or regular expressions.

>>> line = 'SOMETHING: !abc @123 #xyz/123'

>>> line.split()
['SOMETHING:', '!abc', '@123', '#xyz/123']

>>> import shlex
>>> list(shlex.shlex(line))
['SOMETHING', ':', '!', 'abc', '@', '123']

The following is an example, as I do not know exactly what you are looking for.

>>> import re
>>> result = re.match(r'([A-Z]*): !([a-z]*) @([0-9]*) #([a-z0-9/]*)', line)
>>> result.groups()
('SOMETHING', 'abc', '123', 'xyz/123')