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+# According to Crafting Interpreters, the only two primitives that a
+# scanner/lexer needs are peek and advance; other functions (e.g. match) are
+# nice-to-haves.
+class Scanner(object):
+  def __init__(self, chars):
+    self.i = 0
+    self.chars = chars
+
+  def exhausted(self):
+    return self.i >= len(self.chars)
+
+  def peek(self, n=0):
+    return self.chars[self.i + n] if self.i in range(0, len(self.chars)) else '\0'
+
+  def advance(self):
+    result = self.peek()
+    self.i += 1
+    return result
+
+  def match(self, x):
+    if self.exhausted():
+      return False
+    if self.peek() == x:
+      self.advance()
+      return True
+    else:
+      return False