diff --git a/examples/advanced/python_bytecode.py b/examples/advanced/python_bytecode.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6165e82..0000000
--- a/examples/advanced/python_bytecode.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Compile Python to Bytecode
-==========================
- 
-A toy example that compiles Python directly to bytecode, without generating an AST.
-It currently only works for very very simple Python code.
-
-It requires the 'bytecode' library. You can get it using
-::
-
-    $ pip install bytecode
-
-"""
-from lark import Lark, Transformer, v_args
-from lark.indenter import Indenter
-
-from bytecode import Instr, Bytecode
-
-class PythonIndenter(Indenter):
-    NL_type = '_NEWLINE'
-    OPEN_PAREN_types = ['LPAR', 'LSQB', 'LBRACE']
-    CLOSE_PAREN_types = ['RPAR', 'RSQB', 'RBRACE']
-    INDENT_type = '_INDENT'
-    DEDENT_type = '_DEDENT'
-    tab_len = 8
-
-
-@v_args(inline=True)
-class Compile(Transformer):
-    def number(self, n):
-        return [Instr('LOAD_CONST', int(n))]
-    def string(self, s):
-        return [Instr('LOAD_CONST', s[1:-1])]
-    def var(self, n):
-        return [Instr('LOAD_NAME', n)]
-
-    def arith_expr(self, a, op, b):
-        # TODO support chain arithmetic
-        assert op == '+'
-        return a + b + [Instr('BINARY_ADD')]
-
-    def arguments(self, args):
-        return args
-
-    def funccall(self, name, args):
-        return name + args + [Instr('CALL_FUNCTION', 1)]
-
-    @v_args(inline=False)
-    def file_input(self, stmts):
-        return sum(stmts, []) + [Instr("RETURN_VALUE")]
-
-    def expr_stmt(self, lval, rval):
-        # TODO more complicated than that
-        name ,= lval
-        assert name.name == 'LOAD_NAME' # XXX avoid with another layer of abstraction
-        return rval + [Instr("STORE_NAME", name.arg)]
-
-    def __default__(self, *args):
-        assert False, args
-
-
-python_parser3 = Lark.open('python3.lark', rel_to=__file__, start='file_input',
-                           parser='lalr', postlex=PythonIndenter(),
-                           transformer=Compile(), propagate_positions=False)
-
-def compile_python(s):
-    insts = python_parser3.parse(s+"\n")
-    return Bytecode(insts).to_code()
-
-code = compile_python("""
-a = 3
-b = 5
-print("Hello World!")
-print(a+(b+2))
-print((a+b)+2)
-""")
-exec(code)
-# -- Output --
-# Hello World!
-# 10
-# 10
diff --git a/lark/lark.py b/lark/lark.py
index 45dec4d..744cf4b 100644
--- a/lark/lark.py
+++ b/lark/lark.py
@@ -340,7 +340,9 @@ class Lark(Serialize):
         if self.options.ambiguity not in _VALID_AMBIGUITY_OPTIONS:
             raise ConfigurationError("invalid ambiguity option: %r. Must be one of %r" % (self.options.ambiguity, _VALID_AMBIGUITY_OPTIONS))
 
-        if self.options.postlex is not None:
+        if self.options.parser is None:
+            terminals_to_keep = '*'
+        elif self.options.postlex is not None:
             terminals_to_keep = set(self.options.postlex.always_accept)
         else:
             terminals_to_keep = set()
diff --git a/lark/load_grammar.py b/lark/load_grammar.py
index abcfce1..309826b 100644
--- a/lark/load_grammar.py
+++ b/lark/load_grammar.py
@@ -782,12 +782,13 @@ class Grammar:
                 break
 
         # Filter out unused terminals
-        used_terms = {t.name for r in compiled_rules
-                             for t in r.expansion
-                             if isinstance(t, Terminal)}
-        terminals, unused = classify_bool(terminals, lambda t: t.name in used_terms or t.name in self.ignore or t.name in terminals_to_keep)
-        if unused:
-            logger.debug("Unused terminals: %s", [t.name for t in unused])
+        if terminals_to_keep != '*':
+            used_terms = {t.name for r in compiled_rules
+                                 for t in r.expansion
+                                 if isinstance(t, Terminal)}
+            terminals, unused = classify_bool(terminals, lambda t: t.name in used_terms or t.name in self.ignore or t.name in terminals_to_keep)
+            if unused:
+                logger.debug("Unused terminals: %s", [t.name for t in unused])
 
         return terminals, compiled_rules, self.ignore