syntactic 0.1.3

Custom syntax for Python.

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Customizable syntax for Python.

Possible uses

• Experimenting with possible language features.

• Boilerplate reduction.

Examples

Unicode lambdas

from __syntax__ import unicode_lambda

func = λx: x + 1

is equivalent to

func = lambda x: x + 1

SQL template literals

Embedded sql:

from __syntax__ import sql_literals

engine.query(sql`SELECT author FROM books WHERE name = {book} AND author = {author}`)

is equivalent to:

engine.query('SELECT author FROM books WHERE name = ? AND author = ?', [book, author])

Limitations

The example transformers are written in a fragile way. They are intended only as inspiration rather than production-ready transformers. If you want to add some production-ready ones, pull-requests are welcome.

Related work

Several projects have explored manipulating Python syntax.

• MacroPy

• future-fstrings

• experimental