Information about the package, python-ply, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The python-ply package is designed for, Python Lex-Yacc.
Package Name:
python-ply
Summary:
Python Lex-Yacc
Description:
PLY is a straightforward lex/yacc implementation. Here is a list of its essential features: * It is implemented entirely in Python. * It uses LR-parsing which is reasonably efficient and well suited for larger grammars. * PLY provides most of the standard lex/yacc features including support for empty productions, precedence rules, error recovery, and support for ambiguous grammars. * PLY is straightforward to use and provides very extensive error checking. * PLY doesn't try to do anything more or less than provide the basic lex/yacc functionality. In other words, it's not a large parsing framework or a component of some larger system.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.4
Release:
4.el6
Size:
126 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the python-ply package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install python-ply
This command will install python-ply on the server.
yum remove python-ply
This command will un-install python-ply on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python-ply, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove python-ply
This command will un-install python-ply on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove python-ply when using the -y flag.
yum update python-ply
This command will update python-ply to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove python-ply, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update python-ply
This command will update python-ply to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove python-ply when using the -y flag.
yum info python-ply
This command will show you core information about the python-ply package.
yum deplist python-ply
This command will show you the dependencies for python-ply. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update python-ply
This command will check if there is an update waiting on python-ply. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.