The most misunderstood aspect of Python

• pymen

  4 12 0.0 JavaScript

Literally anything. 'Tis a homemade homegrown lisp, grown by Scott Bell for several years till I took it all for myself. Nom nom.

It starts with reader.l: https://github.com/shawwn/pymen/blob/ml/reader.l where the raw character stream is turned into a bunch of nested arrays. E.g. (+ 1 2) becomes ["+", 1, 2]

Then it's punted over to compiler.l https://github.com/shawwn/pymen/blob/ml/compiler.l where it's passed through `expand`, which does a `macroexpand` followed by a `lower`. E.g. (do (do (do (print 'hi)))) becomes ["print", "\"hi\""]

Then the final thing is thrown to the compile function, which spits out print("hi")

Works with all the standard python things, like async functions and `with` contexts. Been screwing around with it for a few years.

• CPython

  1,313 59,531 10.0 Python

  The Python programming language

  

This is great: I'm learning so much reading this.

It lead me to read the source of the Python "types" standard library module, which really does just create a bunch of different Python objects and then use type() to extract their types: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.9.6/Lib/types.py

Some examples from that file:

    async def _ag():

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• lumen

  10 532 0.0 JavaScript

  A Lisp for Lua and JavaScript (by sctb)

Not mine! That was all Scott Bell. It's forked from Lumen: https://github.com/sctb/lumen

But, I did make an interactive tutorial here: https://docs.ycombinator.lol/

If you have any questions about it, I'd be happy to answer. This stuff is pure fun mixed with a shot of professionalism.

For what it's worth, as someone with narcolepsy, I relate quite a lot to your chronic pain. (https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1392213804684038150) For me, it mostly translated into wandering aimlessly from job to job, since I thought no one would have me. I hope that you find your way -- there's nothing wrong at all with taking it slow and spending years on something that takes others a few months. Everyone is different, and it's all about the fun.

• magicimport.py

  1 95 2.6 Python

I created this fun hack that taught me a LOT about the import system. Basically it allows you to import anything you want, even specify a version, and it will fetch it from PyPI live. Might be interesting to flesh this out in a way that's deployable.

https://github.com/dheera/magicimport.py

• stack-overflow-import

  27 3,686 0.0 Python

  Import arbitrary code from Stack Overflow as Python modules.

See also https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import for stupid Python import tricks.

"from stackoverflow import quick_sort will go through the search results of [python] quick sort looking for the largest code block that doesn’t syntax error in the highest voted answer from the highest voted question and return it as a module. If that answer doesn’t have any valid python

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