[Python-ideas] Pythonect 0.1.0 Release

Sun Apr 1 18:05:22 CEST 2012

April fool, right?
On Sunday, April 1, 2012, Itzik Kotler wrote:
> Hi All,
>> I'm pleased to announce the first beta release of Pythonect interpreter.
>> Pythonect is a new, experimental, general-purpose dataflow programming
> language based on Python.
>> It aims to combine the intuitive feel of shell scripting (and all of its
> perks like implicit parallelism) with the flexibility and agility of
> Python.
>> Pythonect interpreter (and reference implementation) is written in Python,
> and is available under the BSD license.
>> Here's a quick tour of Pythonect:
>> The canonical "Hello, world" example program in Pythonect:
>> >>> "Hello World" -> print
> <MainProcess:Thread-1> : Hello World
> Hello World
> >>>
>> '->' and '|' are both Pythonect operators.
>> The pipe operator (i.e. '|') passes one item at a item, while the other
> operator passes all items at once.
>>> Python statements and other None-returning function are acting as a
> pass-through:
>> >>> "Hello World" -> print -> print
> <MainProcess:Thread-2> : Hello World
> <MainProcess:Thread-2> : Hello World
> Hello World
> >>>
>> >>> 1 -> import math -> math.log
> 0.0
> >>>
>>> Parallelization in Pythonect:
>> >>> "Hello World" -> [ print , print ]
> <MainProcess:Thread-4> : Hello World
> <MainProcess:Thread-5> : Hello World
> ['Hello World', 'Hello World']
>> >>> range(0,3) -> import math -> math.sqrt
> [0.0, 1.0, 1.4142135623730951]
> >>>
>> In the future, I am planning on adding support for multi-processing, and
> even distributed computing.
>>> The '_' identifier allow access to current item:
>> >>> "Hello World" -> [ print , print ] -> _ + " and Python"
> <MainProcess:Thread-7> : Hello World
> <MainProcess:Thread-8> : Hello World
> ['Hello World and Python', 'Hello World and Python']
> >>>
>> >>> [ 1 , 2 ] -> _**_
> [1, 4]
> >>>
>>> True/False return values as filters:
>> >>> "Hello World" -> _ == "Hello World" -> print
> <MainProcess:Thread-9> : Hello World
> >>>
>> >>> "Hello World" -> _ == "Hello World1" -> print
> False
> >>>
>> >>> range(1,10) -> _ % 2 == 0
> [2, 4, 6, 8]
> >>>
>>> Last but not least, I have also added extra syntax for making remote
> procedure call easy:
>> >> 1 -> inc at xmlrpc://localhost:8000 -> print
> <MainProcess:Thread-2> : 2
> 2
> >>>
>> Download Pythonect v0.1.0 from:
> http://github.com/downloads/ikotler/pythonect/Pythonect-0.1.0.tar.gz
>> More information can be found at: http://www.pythonect.org
>>> I will appreciate any input / feedback that you can give me.
>> Also, for those interested in working on the project, I'm actively
> interested in welcoming and supporting both new developers and new users.
> Feel free to contact me.
>>> Regards,
> Itzik Kotler | http://www.ikotler.org
>
-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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