I do have a small question and maybe request regarding simpleparse library parts of your project depend upon.
Current Python3 version of simpleparse only processes python3 unicode strings. Trying to parse binary bytes strings, eg. plain ascii or latin1 encoded strings causes an Error.
Would you see any benefit for your project if simpleparse would be able to properly parse bytes strings without being reencoded to unicode before parsing?
In case may I kindly invite you to up-vote the pullrequest mcfletch/simpleparse#15 on the simpleparse repo and maybe even comment the pull request or any related issue?