All programmers need to identify parts and structures that exist inside textual documents: log files, configuration files, delimited data, and more free-form (but still semi-structured) report formats. There are many parsing tools that have been written for Python. This article discusses a high-level parsing language built on top of Python. SimpleParse provides an EBNF-style syntax on top of mxTextTools that can greatly clarify the expression of grammars.