python to C code generator

Ned Batchelder ned at nedbatchelder.com
Tue Jan 23 09:00:52 EST 2018


On 1/23/18 8:48 AM, kushal bhattacharya wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 7:05:02 PM UTC+5:30, bartc wrote:
>> On 23/01/2018 13:23, kushal bhattacharya wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 17, 2018 at 4:34:23 PM UTC+5:30, kushal bhattacharya wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Is there any python framework or any tool as  which can generate C code from python code as it is .
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Kushal
>>> yes i have but it generates a complex C code with python dependencies.I want to call the generated function from another C code but i Cant figure out how to do that
>> Because the translation isn't simply defined.
>>
>> I've just tried nuitka on the Python code 'a=b+c', and it generates 2400
>> lines of C. The main purpose seems to be to generate a self-contained
>> executable corresponding to the Python, but generating first a C
>> equivalent then using a C compiler and linker.
>>
>> This equivalent code may just contain all the bits in CPython needed to
>> do the job, but bypassing all the stuff to do with executing actual
>> byte-code. But it also seems to do some optimisations (in the generated
>> C before it uses C compiler optimisations), so that if static types can
>> be inferred it might make use of that info.
>>
>> Perhaps you simply want to use Python syntax to write C code? That would
>> be a different kind of translator. And a simpler one, as 'a=b+c'
>> translates to 'a+b+c;' in C.
>>
>> -- 
>> bartc
>
> This is exactly what i meant to say.My goal is to translate the python code into its C equivalent with function name as it is.

The best way to do that is to read the Python code, understand what it 
does, and re-write it in C.  You won't find an automatic tool that can 
do the job you want.  The semantics of Python and C are too different.

--Ned.



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