Transcrypt 3.5.144

Python to JavaScript transpiler, supporting multiple inheritance and generating lean, highly readable code

Transcrypt is a tool to precompile a fairly extensive subset of Python into compact, readable Javascript. It has the following characteristics:

• Allows for classical OO programming with multiple inheritance using pure Python syntax, parsed by CPython’s native parser

• Seamless integration with the universe of high-quality web-oriented JavaScript libraries, rather than the desktop-oriented Python ones

• Hierarchical URL based module system to prevent name conflicts

• Simple relation between Python source and generated JavaScript code, combined with sourcemap support, for easy debugging

• Compact downloads, kB’s rather than MB’s

• Lightning fast JavaScript code, using memoization (call caching) to optionally bypass the prototype lookup chain

• Operator overloading can be switched on and off locally to facilitate use for numerical math that’s both readable and efficient

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Documentation with code examples

Take a look at the documentation with code examples at the Transcrypt website: http://www.transcrypt.org .

Status

First release with sourcemaps! Single level sourcemap support for Google Chrome has been added, allowing you to debug Python sources from non-minified JS target code. Extensive tests on both Windows and Linux have lead to the conclusion that Transcrypt is ready for production use. Thanks to everyone who filed bug reports! You submit them as GitHub issues at: https://github.com/JdeH/Transcrypt .

What’s new

• Single level sourcemaps

• Div. bug fixes guided by submitted issues + autotest-cases added for them

Known restrictions

• No standard libs, use or encapsulate the JavaScript ones, that’s part of the concept. Some may be ported though.

• Not all methods of builtin types are there by default. This results from a deliberate choice to keep Transcrypt lean. Such things can be distributed in separate libs.

• No eval and exec of Python code. This is again part of the concept. Transcrypt code is compiled, optimized and minified in advance to warant fast page loads.

• No threading of any kind. Will probably stay that way as long as JavaScript doesn’t properly support that.

• No iterator, generator, xrange stuff. Maybe in the future if a broadly installed version of JavaScript suppports it.

Known bugs

• None

Readability

As can be seen below, there’s a simple parallel between the Python and the JavaScript code. So it should be easy to debug. Also, code can be tested from the command prompt using stubs.

Classic OO with multiple inheritance in JavaScript

Other packages you might like

• Multi-module Python source code obfuscator: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Opy

• PLC simulator with Arduino code generation: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SimPyLC

• A lightweight Python course taking beginners seriously (under construction): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/LightOn

• Event driven evaluation nodes: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Eden

• Numscrypt (under construction, very early stage), experimental port of a microscopic part of NumPy to Transcrypt, using JavaScript typed arrays: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Numscrypt

Licence

Copyright 2014, 2015, 2016 Jacques de Hooge, GEATEC engineering, www.geatec.com

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.