How To Install python-ply on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ply on CentOS 7.
What is python-ply
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.
We can use yum or dnf to install python-ply on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python-ply.
Install python-ply on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install python-ply using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python-ply
Install python-ply on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install python-ply using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python-ply
How To Uninstall python-ply on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the python-ply package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python-ply
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-ply on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
