Documentation in doc/ply.md lacks important details about creating a custom lexer. about ply

[dabeaz]

I appreciate the interest in PLY, but it is not something that I actually work on right now. As such, I have no plans (or time) to work on updates to the documentation or the code. The above description is also describing an out of date version of PLY, not the current version of code as found in GitHub. I'm more than willing to consider minor bug fixes, but they would have to be explicit and point to specific things in the code/docs.

[mrolle45]

@dabeaz This is describing https://github.com/dabeaz/ply/blob/master/doc/ply.md. Is this not the current version you are referring to.

Would anyone like to volunteer to incorporate my OP into doc/ply.md?

[dabeaz]

The problem is that there are all these references to features that have been long removed. optimize, outdir, lextab, etc. None of that exists in the current codebase. As such, it doesn't appear in the docs either. I don't know what version of PLY you're working with, but it doesn't seem to match what's currently in GitHub.

[mrolle45]

@dabeaz This is describing https://github.com/dabeaz/ply/blob/master/doc/ply.md. Is this not the current version you are referring to.

Would anyone like to volunteer to incorporate my OP into doc/ply.md?

[mrolle45]

I had an older version (11/2/20) of the ply source code and the current version of ply.md. My issue is with the current version of ply.md, but some things no longer apply.
I now have the current version of the ply source code. I'll edit the OP soon, after I look at it and be sure that I can get my own application working with it.

[mrolle45]

The OP is now as I want it. The only thing I needed to do was remove the information about optimized usage, which is no longer supported.