text = 'foo = 23 + 42 * 10'
tokens = [('NAME', 'foo'), ('EQ', '='), ('NUM', '23'), ('PLUS', '+'),
('NUM', '42'), ('TIMES', '*'), ('NUM', '10')]
import re
NAME = r'(?P<NAME>[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*)'
NUM = r'(?P<NUM>\d+)'
PLUS = r'(?P<PLUS>\+)'
TIMES = r'(?P<TIMES>\*)'
EQ = r'(?P<EQ>=)'
WS = r'(?P<WS>\s+)'
master_pat = re.compile('|'.join([NAME, NUM, PLUS, TIMES, EQ, WS]))
scanner = master_pat.scanner('foo = 42')
print(scanner.match())
from collections import namedtuple
Token = namedtuple('Token', ['type', 'value'])
def generate_tokens(pat, text):
scanner = pat.scanner(text)
for m in iter(scanner.match, None):
yield Token(m.lastgroup, m.group())
for tok in generate_tokens(master_pat, 'foo = 42'):
print(tok)
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 3), match='foo'>
Token(type='NAME', value='foo')
Token(type='WS', value=' ')
Token(type='EQ', value='=')
Token(type='WS', value=' ')
Token(type='NUM', value='42')