PyCer, a Python to C compiler written in Python. Heavily based on Polyakov Konstantin's py2c project.
PyCer is a Python transpiler which syntatically transpiles Python code to Pure C code. Note that it does not semantically transpile. Instead it compiles the Python's syntatic constructs to C's equivalent. This project is not intended to be a pure Python compiler like Cython or Nutika(with lots of optimisations). But to be a lightweight transpiler. This projects intends to give a good API and a frontend for the base Transpiler.
As previously stated, this project syntatically transpiles Python code to C code.
For example:
i: int = int(input("Hola"))would be translated to:
int i = int(input("Hola"));Where int() and input() are intended to be predefined somewhere by the user. except for the print function
print("Hello, World!")#include "stdio.h"
printf("Hello, World!\n");Think this project as a extension to existing C where the user can write C code using Python's syntax.
The following operations are supported:
- Assignment of constant values to variables: positive integers and strings.
Restrictions:
- Types must always be declared through annotation during initialization.
- Type annotation will work if it is specified before the assignment. If it is specified at or after the assignment, the annotation will be ignored.
- All arguments are mandatory (there are plans to add the ability to specify default arguments).
- A function always returns only one value (there are plans to enable returning an array for multiple values).
- By default, all positive integers have the C-type
int. - Strings have the default type of
unsigned char.
- Python >= 3.6
- Any C compiler, to compile the produced C code to native binary
I would like to thank Polyakov Konstantin for his work on py2c project.
This project is currently edited and maintained by Harish Kumar.
This project is currently in development.