First release of Shed Skin, a Python-to-C++ compiler.

[A.B., Khalid]

Mark Dufour wrote:
> Thank you so much for your efforts!


Don't mention it.

> I will try to download your patches this afternoon on a roommate's Windows
> computer, and try to see if I can fix the remaining tests.
>


Okay. An update.

- Test (124, 'small factorization program by Rohit Krishna Kumar') now
passes on Windows. My mistake in my patching of SS header files. The
patch is now updated. Please download again if you have an earlier
copy.

- Test (122, 'neural network simulator XXX later: recursive
customization, plus some small fixes') was not really failing, it was
just not passing. :)

You see the Python version calls random like so:
	self.weight = (random()-0.5)/2  # [float]

And testing output for random generated values is not going to make the
test pass. So if we change that line to a random value generated by
Python in the same way like so:
	self.weight = (0.88996634365870131-0.5) # [float]

We have then output from Python like so:
[[0.97483328216510368], [0.50575070454495774], [0.50047176765739709],
[0.93429133063585856], [0.50083898389362214], [0.98098364981984132],
[0.5033858371718114], [0.94838636704849744], [0.50002510730868799],
[0.50910910041727786], [0.5128172933740105], [0.50010155471769424]]


and from the compiled SS generated C++ files like so:
[[0.974833], [0.505751], [0.500472], [0.934291], [0.500839],
[0.980984], [0.503386], [0.948386], [0.500025], [0.509109], [0.512817],
[0.500102]]

Which is okay I guess, wouldn't you agree?

- On to Test (85, 'ifa: mixing strings and lists of strings in the same
list').  It is still failing. It is crashing in the compiled C++
generated from SS. But did you know that the test in pure Python is
crashing as well?

"""
#test03.py
#('ifa: mixing strings and lists of strings in the same list', '''
def row_perm_rec():
    hoppa_row = 'impossible'             # [str]
    hoppa_row = []                       # [list(str)]

    a = hoppa_row                        # [pyobj]
    hoppa_row.extend(a)                  # []
    hoppa_row.append('u')                # []

    return hoppa_row                     # [pyobj]

a = [[7]]                                # [list(list(int))]
s = row_perm_rec()                       # [pyobj]
puzzleboard = [['']]                     # [list(list(str))]
puzzleboard[1][1] = s[1]                 # [str]
#''', '''
#check('s', ['pyobj'])
#check('a', ['list(list(int))'])
#check('puzzleboard', ['list(list(str))'])
#output()
"""



Running that file produces this error in all Python versions I have.:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test03.py", line 15, in ?
    puzzleboard[1][1] = s[1]                 # [str]
IndexError: list index out of range



- Finally Test (60, '__class__ and __name__ attributes') needs
patience. :) In Python it outputs the following:
__main__.evert
evert
<type 'instance'>
instance
equal str!


In the compiled C++ generated by SS it outputs the following:
class evert
evert
class evert
evert
equal!
[Big nasty crash]



So there. :)


Regards,
Khalid