From: Chris Rhoden <carhoden@...>
Date: 2009-08-05T07:42:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Python and ruby together?

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Does this do what you want?
http://github.com/why/unholy/tree/master

-chris


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Caleb Clausen <vikkous@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/4/09, Gwen Morse <goldmooneachna@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Is it possible to set up python scripts in such a way that they can
> > parse ruby files?
>
> Parsing ruby is very complex, and there are very few complete (or
> nearly complete) ruby parsers out there. It's possible that some
> python library exists that can parse ruby, but unlikely. Your best bet
> is to use one of the existing ruby parsers from a ruby interpreter
> running in a separate process, serialize the tree it outputs and
> figure out how to unserialize that into python data.
>
> The ruby parsers I know of are:
>
> RedParse (disclaimer: I wrote this one)
> ParseTree (+JParseTree for jruby)
> ruby_parser
> RubyNode
> ruby 1.9 + Ripper (which I only discovered today can output a tree)
>
>

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