Python Compiler Compiler (pcc) =============================
Context Free Grammar parsers for Python 3
Copyright 2012 Erich Blume <blume.erich@gmail.com>
This file is part of pcc.
pcc is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
pcc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with pcc, in a file called COPYING. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
The documentation for pcc is generated automatically. The first section of the official documentation comes directly from the README.rst file at the root level of the pcc project - and you may in fact be reading from that file right now! Alternately, you could be reading from "pcc.pdf", which is the full documentation for pcc.
The first section of "pcc.pdf" comes directly from README.rst, and you are reading it now. The second section is the Cookbook - new developers will (hopefully) find the Cookbook as a helpful place to start. The Cookbook contains color-coded and well-explained code examples on how to use pcc.
Finally, the third section (entitled "pcc Package") is the automatically generated API documentation that comes directly from the code itself. Notably, any code examples in this section are actually executed as part of the testing suite (see Testing, below). One thing to note about this documentation is that you can generally skip any module with "_test" at the end of its name - this denotes a module that contains only unit test cases, and thus isn't of much use to anyone other than a pcc developer.
If you suspect your documentation is out of date, you can re-generate it by going in to the docs/ subdirectory of this project and executing:
$ make pccAssuming you have all the required packages (LaTeX and Sphinx are both required, for instance - although some python packages may hopefully install themselves) the "pcc.pdf" file will be updated automatically.
pcc uses distribute, a setuptools-like distribution wrapper, to automate installation.
Execute the following command (or similar) to install the module for all users:
$ sudo python3 setup.py installYou can also see a more complete list of build options by entering:
$ python3 setup.py --helpor by reading the distribute documentation.
Coming soon! This should be fairly simple, as distribute should take care of the tricky stuff. It probably works already, I just haven't tested it yet.
It is a good idea to run the unit test suite, and it is generally very simple to do so. Unit testing is performed using nose, and is automated by distribute, and augmented with testing coverage reports by coverage.
To execute the full testing suite, enter the following command:
$ python3 setup.py nosetestsNo errors should be reported by this process. Also note that while setuptools may report that there is a tests command, this has not been configured - use nosetests instead.
- 0.1 - 13 January 2012
Working LL(1) parser with semantic actions.
See AUTHORS for a (hopefully) complete list of all contributors to this project. Please add your name and - if you like - your email to the list if you contributed anything you felt was meaningul to the project.
For tips and procedures on how to contribute - or to report a bug or leave feedback - please visit the pcc project page on github. Please feel free to be bold in submitting patches, tickets, or push requests - I won't be offended and would greatly appreciate the effort!