= Word(nums).setParseAction(lambda toks: int(toks[0])) integerK = integer.copy().addParseAction(lambda toks: toks[0]*1024) + Suppress("K") integerM = integer.copy().addParseAction(lambda toks: toks[0]*1024*1024) + Suppress("M") print(OneOrMore(integerK | integerM | integer).parseString("5K 100 640K 256M")) prints:: [5120, 100, 655360, 268435456] Equivalent form of C{expr.copy()} is just C{expr()}:: integerM = integer().addParseAction(lambda toks: toks[0]*1024*1024) + Suppress("M") N)