MacroPy 0.1.2

Macros for Python: Quasiquotes, Case Classes, LINQ and more!

MacroPy is an implementation of Macros in the Python Programming Language. MacroPy provides a mechanism for user-defined functions (macros) to perform transformations on the abstract syntax tree(AST) of Python code at module import time. This is an easy way to modify the semantics of a python program

Python like you’ve never seen before

MacroPy allows you to create constructs which are impossible to have in normal python code, such as:

Tracing

with trace:
    sum([x + 5 for x in range(3)])

# sum([(x + 5) for x in range(3)])
# range(3) -> [0, 1, 2]
# (x + 5) -> 5
# (x + 5) -> 6
# (x + 5) -> 7
# [(x + 5) for x in range(3)] -> [5, 6, 7]
# sum([(x + 5) for x in range(3)]) -> 18

Quick Lambdas

print map(f%_[0], ['omg', 'wtf', 'bbq'])
# ['o', 'w', 'b']

print reduce(f%(_ + _), ['omg', 'wtf', 'bbq'])
# 'omgwtfbbq

Case Classes

@case
class Point(x, y): pass

p = Point(1, 2)

print str(p)    #Point(1, 2)
print p.x       #1
print p.y       #2
print Point(1, 2) == Point(1, 2) # True

And more! All this runs perfectly on vanilla Python 2.7 or PyPy 1.9. For more details, see the GitHub page