There are few rites of programmer passage as iconic as writing your first parser. You might want to interpret or compile a scripting language, or you might want to accept natural-language-like ...

There are few rites of programmer passage as iconic as writing your first parser. You might want to interpret or compile a scripting language, or you might want to accept natural-language-like ...

Recursion is more than a coding trick—it’s a powerful way to simplify complex problems in Python. From elegant tree traversals to backtracking algorithms, mastering recursion opens the door to cleaner ...

Applications frequently need to store persistent data, and the format for saving can be any format conceivable by the developer. However, each time a new application is written, the set of tools for ...

I'm about 98% done building an app for parsing a certain network vendor's XML dumps, and need some help with group objects I know I should have used etree, but minidom seemed too straight forward to ...

Now, it's time to discuss a few techniques to improve the overall design of the parser. I'll cover performance, general structure and what can be done to considerably ...