diff --git a/InternalDocs/parser.md b/InternalDocs/parser.md index 1d0ffe6d40d078..1bb4cdea5439f1 100644 --- a/InternalDocs/parser.md +++ b/InternalDocs/parser.md @@ -819,6 +819,13 @@ directory on the CPython repository and manually call the parser generator by ex $ python -m pegen python ``` +> [!CAUTION] +> Python's grammar (the `Grammar/python.gram` file) is written for the +> C backend. To experiment, you will need to write a grammar +> without C-specific parts like actions and the trailer. +> See [#133560](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/133560) +> and [#96424](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/96424) for more information. + This will generate a file called `parse.py` in the same directory that you can use to parse some input: