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PLY

parsing tool written purely in Python
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PLY

Summary

PLY is a free software[1]. PLY ranks in the top 10% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • PLY authored David M. Beazley[3].
  • PLY's instance of is recorded as free software[4].
  • PLY's instance of is recorded as lex[5].
  • PLY's instance of is recorded as yacc[6].
  • PLY's instance of is recorded as LALR parser generator[7].
  • PLY's instance of is recorded as software[8].
  • PLY's copyright license is recorded as BSD licenses[9].
  • PLY's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License[10].
  • PLY's programmed in is recorded as Python[11].
  • PLY's software version identifier is recorded as 3.9[12].
  • PLY's software version identifier is recorded as 3.10[13].
  • PLY's software version identifier is recorded as 3.11[14].
  • PLY's software version identifier is recorded as 3.4[15].
  • PLY's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0105kr15[16].
  • PLY's official website is recorded as http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/index.html[17].
  • PLY's facet of is recorded as yacc[18].
  • PLY's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/dabeaz/ply[19].
  • PLY's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[20].
  • PLY's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[21].
  • PLY's SlackBuilds package is recorded as python/python3-ply[22].

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Authorship and Creation

PLY authored David M. Beazley[3].

Why It Matters

PLY ranks in the top 10% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5 views/month).[2] PLY is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

free software Python software

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). PLY. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/ply
MLA “PLY.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/ply.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_ply_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{PLY}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/ply}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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