[Python-Dev] Translate Python language (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Wed Nov 11 11:20:04 EST 2015

On November 11, 2015 at 11:19:07 AM, Paul Moore (p.f.moore at gmail.com) wrote:

On 11 November 2015 at 15:13, Christophe Bal wrote: > Hello. > > I'm a french teacher and I would like to use Python with young child but > I've a big problem. All the keyword are in english. So I would like to know > if there is a way to hack the AST tools such as to use french keywords and > then translate a list of french keywords to their english regular version. > > Where should I start ? My idea is not to build a new language but simply > translate words using an hacked version of the AST tools. > > Hoping to be clear and I do not pollute the message in this list.

Do you really just mean keywords? Most of the English words used in Python (for example "open") aren't actually keywords but are names of functions defined in the builtins and/or standard library. Those are not exposed as distinct objects in the AST, but are simply name lookups.

You might be able to use an encoding to do this.

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