Pythons are Values is a hypothesis - that every python program has an equivalent one-liner. This goal is accomplished in a number of horrible, horrible ways. More coming soon.
The most up-to-date version of the project is in expressionize.py. The other python program is supplied as input via the command line. It is then parsed with the ast module into an abstract syntax tree. This tree is traversed and modified with DFS.
- Variable Assignment
[foo for foo in [5]] # foo = 5(Python 2.7 specific). One may also have
lambda k,v : globals().update({k:v})- Printing
lambda *s : sys.stdout.write('%s\\n' % ' '.join(map(str, s)))- Raising exceptions:
lambda e : (_ for _ in ()).throw(e)- Conditionals as nested if-else expressions
- For loops as list comphrensions
- While loops as recursive lambda functions
- Fix namespace issues
- Tail recursion optimization to fix while loop lambda
- Classes
- Coroutines to generator comphrensions
- Metaclasses / default type constructors
- Try / Except clauses