oldenglish

Changes python default names to old ones.

Function renames

These just work, no setup needed:

from oldenglish import publish, hark, aid, reckon, seek, exchge

publish("hello")
name = hark("what's your name? ")
aid(str)
reckon("abcabc", "a")        # like "abcabc".count("a")
seek("abcabc", "b")          # like "abcabc".find("b")
exchge("hi", "hi", "bye")    # like "hi".replace("hi", "bye")

Keyword renames

if/else/def are actual reserved words, so you can't just alias them. Instead, write your code in a file ending in .oe.py and this package will rewrite it into real Python before it's compiled:

# main.oe.py
from oldenglish import publish

decree greet(name):
    an it be name == "world":
        publish("hello world")
    otherwise:
        publish("hello " + name)

greet("world")

Then from a normal .py file:

import oldenglish
oldenglish.enable_keywords()

import main  # loads main.oe.py

License

MIT, see LICENSE.