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Lexer for C- in python improvement suggestions.

I am currently taking a compilers course where we are designing a compiler for C- (which is a subset of C) Our first step was the lexer and I have written that but I believe that it is not very "pythonic" and I was hoping someone could help me make it more "pythonic" as I believe doing this would make the future parts of this assignment far simpler and more manageable.

I will first discuss the rules of the language and then give my program.

1.The accepted keywords are as follows:

else if int return void while float

2.The special symbols are:

+ - * / < <= > >= == != = ; , ( ) [ ] { } /* */ //
  1. Other tokens are ID, NUM (for ints) or FLOAT defined by the following regular expressions:

    FLOAT = (\d+(.\d+)?([E][+|-]?\d+)?) ID = letter letter* NUM = digit digit* letter = a|...|z|A|...|Z digit = 0|...|9

lowercase and uppercase are distinct

  1. White space consists of blanks, newlines, and tabs. White space is ignore except that it must separate IDs, NUMs, FLOATs, and keywords.
  2. Comments are surrounded by the C notations /* ... */ // and CAN (don't know why) be nested

The program will read in a C- file and output the line followed by every ID, keyword, NUM, and FLOAT in order that they appear as well as outputting every special symbol. (Comments are ignored and so is white space. Anything that is invalid is to be displayed as an error and the program resume as normal.) The program does not determine if the program is valid it is simply breaking it up.

Sample input:

/**/          /*/* */   */
/*/*/****This**********/*/    */
/**************/
/*************************
i = 333;        ******************/       */

iiii = 3@33;

int g 4 cd (int u, int v)      {

Sample output:

INPUT: /**/          /*/* */   */
INPUT: /*/*/****This**********/*/    */
INPUT: /**************/
INPUT: /*************************
INPUT: i = 333;        ******************/       */
*  
/  
INPUT: iiii = 3@33;
ID: iiii 
=
NUM: 3
Error: @33
;

INPUT: int g 4 cd (int u, int v)      {
keyword: int
ID: g
NUM: 4
ID: cd
(
keyword: int
ID: u
,
keyword: int
ID: v
)
{

Currently I am running through line by line and then character by character and building up the tokens but I feel like there is a much more straight forward way of doing it.

I would like to be able to just read the line in, break it up and then check each item to see what it is.

Here is my code:

   from sys import argv
import re

keyword = ['else', 'if', 'int', 'while', 'return', 'void', 'float']
oper = ['+', '-', '*', '/', '=', '<', '>', '<=', '>=', '==', '!=']
delim = ['\t','\n',',',';','(',')','{','}','[',']', ' ']
num = ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9']

p = re.compile(r'(\d+(\.\d+)?([E][+|-]?\d+)?)')



scripty, filename = argv

#file = open(filename)
comment_count = 0
line_comment = 0
is_comment = False
i = 0
iden = "" #null string for identifiers to be built up
print_list = []
end_comment = False #This is a bool value for a block comment
float_str = ""

def is_keyword(kw):
    if kw in keyword:
        return True
    return False

def is_delim(char):
    if char in delim:
        return True
    return False

def which_delim(char):
        if char in delim:
            if char != '\t' and char != '\n' and char != ' ':
                print char
        
def is_digit(char):
    if char in num:
            return True
    return False

def is_char(char):
    c = 0
    c = ord(char)
    if c >= 97 and c <= 122:
        return True
    return False

def is_oper(char):
    if char in oper:
        return True
    return False
    
def is_num(str):
    try:
        int(str)
        return True
    except:
        return False
        
def is_float(str):
    m = p.match(str)
    length = len(str)
    if m and length == len(m.group(0)):
        print "FLOAT: %s" %m.group(0)
        return True
    else:
        return False
    

for line in open(filename):
    if line != '\n':
        print "Input: %s" % (line),
        while line[i] != '\n': #i and enumerate allows to iterate through line
            if line[i] is '/':
                if line[i + 1] is '/' and comment_count is 0: # it's a line comment print it out
                    line_comment += 1
                elif line[i + 1] is '*':
                    i += 1
                    comment_count += 1
            elif (line[i] is '*') and (line[i+1] is '/') and comment_count > 0: 
                comment_count -= 1 
                i += 1
                if comment_count == 0:
                    end_comment = True
            
            if comment_count is 0 and line_comment is 0 and end_comment == False:
                if is_digit(line[i]): #check for float
                    j = i
                    while not is_delim(line[j]):
                        float_str += line[j]
                        j += 1
                    if is_float(float_str):
                        if(j < len(line)):
                         i = j
                        iden = ''
                    float_str = '' #reset string at end use
                if is_char(line[i]) or is_digit(line[i]) and not is_oper(line[i]):
                    iden += line[i]
                if is_delim(line[i]) and iden == '': #for delims w/ blank space
                    which_delim(line[i])
                if is_oper(line[i]) and iden is '':
                    temp = line[i] + line[i + 1]
                    if(is_oper(temp)):
                        print temp
                        i += 1
                    else:
                        print line[i]
                if not is_char(line[i]) and not is_digit(line[i]) and not is_oper(line[i]) and iden is not '' and not is_delim(line[i]):
                    if is_keyword(iden):
                        print "keyword: %s" % iden
                        print "ERROR: %s" % line[i]
                    elif is_oper(iden):
                        print iden
                        print "Error: %s" % line[i]
                    elif is_num(iden):
                        print "NUM: %s" % iden
                        print "Error: %s" % line[i]
                    else:
                        print "ID: %s" % iden
                        print "Error: %s" % line[i]
                    iden = ''
                elif not is_char(line[i]) and not is_digit(line[i]) and not is_oper(line[i]) and not is_delim(line[i]):
                    print "Error: %s" % line[i]
                if (is_delim(line[i]) or is_oper(line[i])) and iden != '':
                    if is_keyword(iden):
                        print "keyword: %s" % iden
                    elif is_oper(line[i]):
                        temp = line[i] + line[i + 1]
                        if is_oper(temp):
                            if is_keyword(iden):
                                print "keyword: %s" % iden
                            print temp
                            i += 1
                        else:
                            print "ID: %s" % iden
                            print line[i]
                    elif is_num(iden):
                        print "NUM: %s" % iden 
                    elif is_oper(iden):
                        temp = iden + line[i + 1]
                        if is_oper(temp):
                            print temp
                            i += 1
                        else:
                            print iden
                    else:
                        print "ID: %s" % iden
                    which_delim(line[i])
                    iden = ''
            i += 1 #increment i
            end_comment = False
        if line[i] == '\n' and iden != '':
            if is_keyword(iden):
                print "keyword: %s" % iden
            elif is_oper(iden):
                print iden
            else:
                print "ID: %s" % iden
            iden = ''
        line_comment = 0 # reset line commment number
        i = 0 #reset i
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