LisPython

Documentation

You can find the documentation at https://jetack.github.io/lispython/.

Installation

Manual Installation (for development)

poetry install --no-root # for dependency
pip install -e . # for development

Using pip

pip install lispython

How to Run lispy code

Run from source

lpy {filename}.lpy

Run REPL

lpy
#or
lpy -t #if you want to print python translation.

Run translation

l2py {filename}.lpy

It just displays translation. (don't run it)

Run Tests

# in project root directory
python -m unittest
#or
lpy -m unittest

Todo

Environment

• Test on more python versions
• REPL should track history and arrow key navigation
• REPL multi-line input support
• Better compileation error messages

Macro System

• as-> macro for syntactic sugar
• gensym for avoiding name collision

Python AST

• type_comment never considered. Later, it should be covered
• Any missing AST nodes in the version 3.12+