pyswahili

A programming language built over Python to easily allow swahili speakers to get started with programming without ever knowing english

pyswahili is not a completely independent language but more of a swahili version of python language, syntax and language grammar is equivalent to python one with only change of keywords from english to swahili.

pyswahili Transpiler

Transpiler(Pyswahili) is for converting the swahili version of python to english version so that it can be intepreted by the python Intepreter

extension ?

There is no official extension for pyswahili, so for now .py is fine.

Repl vs Script

Similar to Python, Pyswahili supports both modes; the Read-evaluate-print(Repl) loop and Script mode, Repl enable you to interactively execute pyswahili code line by line without requiring to write a complete program while on other side Script mode requires you to write your Pyswahili code on a file and run it as whole.

Getting started

To get started using Pyswahili you might need to either clone or manually download the repository and then use pip command to install the package just as shown below.

Linux users

It might require admistrator priveledge to install so use sudo during the installation.

$ git clone https://github.com/Kalebu/pyswahili
$ cd pyswahili
$ sudo pip3 install -e pyswahili

Window Users

If you're a Windows user, I would recommed running command prompt(cmd) with admistrator priveledge during the installation.

$ git clone https://github.com/Kalebu/pyswahili
$ cd pyswahili
$ pip install -e pyswahili

REPL MODE

Now that the pyswahili package is installed, we can start playing with it, To involve repl just run pyswahili without any argument just as shown below;

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author: Kalebu Jordan (github.com/kalebu)
Pyswahili 1.0 on Linux | Saturday 02, January 2021
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Usage

The Pyswahili REPL is used the same wise as the normal python repl, supporting basic statements to complex logic with block statements written in swahili, just as illustrated in the example below.

-> a = 12
-> a
12
-> a + 89
101
-> andika('umri wako ni', a)
umri wako ni 12
-> a = a + 13
-> a
25
-> kama a%2==0:
...     andika(a, 'ni namba shufwa')
...zaidi:
...     andika(a,'ni namba witiri')
...
25 ni namba witiri

Functions in pyswahili

-> njia jumla(a, b):
...     rudisha a + b 
...
-> andika(jumla(20, 21))
41
-> andika(jumla('hello ', '2021'))
hello 2021

Loops Pyswahili

• while loop for while loop, we use the swahili keyword wakati instead of while but the syntax stays the same to break the loop, use keyword vunja

-> x = 3   
-> wakati x>0:
...     andika(x*10)
...     x = x - 1
...
30
20
10

SCRIPT MODE

In script mode, you're supposed to have write your pyswahili code in a file and then pyswahili will run it as whole, your code should follow pyswahili syntax (python one) for it to be evaluated.

• hello.py

namba = ingiza('Namba yoyote : ')
namba = int(namba)

ikiwa no imo katiya(1, 12):
    andika(no, 'x ', namba, '=', no*namba)

running script

$ pyswahili hello.py 
Namba yoyote : 8 
1 x  8 = 8
2 x  8 = 16
3 x  8 = 24
4 x  8 = 32
5 x  8 = 40
6 x  8 = 48
7 x  8 = 56
8 x  8 = 64
9 x  8 = 72
10 x  8 = 80
11 x  8 = 88

SUPPORTED KEYWORDS

If you want to see all the supported keywords in pyswahili, you can view all of them by visiting Pyswahili supported keywords, Keywords are not final, so whenever you see a need for a keyword change feel free to reach me directly.

To Do

• Starter string based logo
• Making sure only keywords are replaced
• Improving the choice of keywords
• adding documentation + examples
• fixing REPL bugs
• Supporting the Module structure
• Publishing Version 1.0 to the PyPI

Ensuring Keywords are replaced

The current approach is just to replace the keywords in the whole python source code string, but the methods are error-prone since they also replace user defined strings, so we have to find a way whereby only keywords are being replaced.

This can be achieved by using Python builtin lexical scanner tokenize for python source code, which is capable of breaking the python source code into pieces strings with their type (NAME, OP, NUMBER, NEWLINE, IDENT) and so on.

More documentation abouut tokenize can be found on its official documentation

Contributing

Wanna contribute ? then please contributing.md to see how

Give it a star

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You can also keep in touch with me on Twitter.

Bug bounty?

If you encounter issue with the usage of the package, feel free raise an issue so as we can fix it as soon as possible(ASAP) or just reach me directly through email

The journey has just began