python exceptions in python antlr package

It has become my habit that I use google search to do simple arithmetic. Now Google improves it further by adding a calculator interface.

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class DFA:
    def __init__(...):
    def predict(self, input):
    def noViableAlt(self, s, input):
    def error(self, nvae):
    def specialStateTransition(self, s, input):
    def getDescription(self):
    def unpack(cls, string):

Finally reached the final chapter of the book.

The point of departure for the needed [US] policy has to be hard-nosed recognition of the three unprecedented conditions that currently define the geopolitical state of world affairs: for the first time in history, (1) a single state is a truly global power, (2) a non-Eurasian state is globally the preeminent state, and (3) the globe’s central arena, Eurasia, is dominated by a non-Eurasian power.

One of the interesting theme in this book is that it has an taken-for-granted conviction that USA The Only Global Power on Earth is a given. The author does not even try to explain why it should be the case. The whole book is basically a guide or a blueprint of how to project American influence onto Eurasia, the most important landmass on Earth.

This book is still relevant today because it helps one to understand the underlying principle of USA’s foreign policy since the G. W. Bush/Neocon era. ( You probably can argue it is not entirely different from that before then)

While Chapter 6 in ‘The Grand Chessboard’ (1997) by Zbigniew Brzezinski talks a lot about China, it actually talks a lot more about Japan.

The author has a rather clear idea why Japan is isolated in the Asia region. The dilemma of Japan: if Japan tries to assert its regional leadership role to counter China, it will find itself surrounded by a hosTILe Russia, a distrusting Korea and South East Asia, and a China that will play a rapid catch-up. Basically the only way forward, as seen by Zbigniew, is for Japan to leverage its alliance with America to gain influence on International stage.