alex / rply

An attempt to port David Beazley's PLY to RPython, and give it a cooler API.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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LexerGenerator has no error handler hooks #22

Open ketsuban opened 10 years ago

ketsuban commented 10 years ago

I can define a custom error handler for ParserGenerator with the ParserGenerator.error decorator, but if there's a lexing error I have to live with the default Python exception handling behaviour.

Looking at the code I see the else clause in LexerStream.next just throws a useless SourcePosition with both lineno and colno set to -1, so even if I were to try and catch the LexingError I wouldn't get any useful information.