On 9/14/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:

I'm happy to announce that as part of an ongoing partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and PediaPress.com, PediaPress has agreed to release as open source a MediaWiki parser library written in Python:

http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki

The library is released under a BSD license. It supports rendering mathematics and timelines, provided the correct dependencies are installed. It could be used for purposes such as offline readers or desktop applications.

It took me a while to get a chance to work with it some. I'm quite impressed.

A really quick example which will be appricated by anyone who has worked on mediawiki parsers in the past:

In [528]: parse("{|\n| [[Image:dogs.jpg|thumb|'''''This '''is''' an'' example of [[Food|things to eat]]]]\n|-\n|}\n") parser.info >> Parsing "'unknown'" Article 'unknown': 1 children Node '': 2 children Table '' {}: 2 children Row '' {}: 1 children Cell '' {}: 1 children Node '': 3 children ' ' ImageLink '': 4 children Style "'''''": 2 children 'This' ' ' Style "''": 1 children 'is' Style "'''''": 2 children ' ' 'an' Style "'''": 6 children ' ' 'example' ' ' 'of' ' ' Link '': 1 children 'things to eat' '\n' Row '' {}: 0 children '\n'