Adding Parse

[jimbobbennett]

Created a Circuitpython version of Parse by lifting the Python lib code and tweaking till it ran. Would be great to have this in the community bundle.

[tannewt]

Hi @jimbobbennett I believe you'll want to preserve the Python license in your repo: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/LICENSE instead of having it designated MIT.

What did you have to tweak to make it run?

[jimbobbennett]

@tannewt - what is the correct thing to do here (I'm not up on license rules). Should I just copy the license from the Python repo and use that? I notice MicroPython has done the same as me and used the MIT license.

For the tweaks - there wasn't much. I removed deprecated methods to make it smaller (as raw source it was blowing the memory on my PyBadge), then had to deal with some unsupported features in CircuitPython:

• str.isascii isn't available in CircuitPython

• There was a regex in there that contains features CircuitPython doesn't support:

  _asciire = re.compile(r'([\x00-\x7f]+)')

[tannewt]

Thanks for documenting the differences! I would just copy the same license over.

Did micropython do it in micropython-lib or micropython proper? I don't think making it MIT is proper though your changes could be licensed that way.

[jimbobbennett]

It was from micropython-lib.

I've updated the license to the Python one.

[tannewt]

Ok great! Thank you!