Explore lark as replacement for the pyparsing formula parser#124
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Explore lark as replacement for the pyparsing formula parser#124
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This is a standalone program for exploring lark as a replacement for pyparsing.
It does a better job of error messages (#34), and it is more robust than the existing parser.
parse_formulashould be a drop-in replacement forperiodictable.formulas.parse_formulabut it hasn't yet een fully tested.