The result was a nice little program which can compile simple functional programs into python bytecode!

The only thing you need is the ply parser generator. To compile a function just use:

import topcompiler

@topcompile.compile
def func(x, y):
    """let i = x*x in y*i"""
    pass # Compiles the docstring into a function

func(2, 3) == 12

Update:

TOPCompiler now also understands recursive definitions!

@topcompiler.compile
def fac(x):
    """
    let rec fac = fun i ->
    if i > 1 then
        fac (i-1)*i
    else
        1
    in fac x
    """
    pass

There is a working quicksort in tests.py.

Check out the code at http://bitbucket.org/ebo/pyvm!

So I wrote a quick extension myself: hggnome-keyring

It uses the usual yadda yadda for installing (see mercurial docs). Only drawback: Access to the keyring is determined by executable name, so any python programm is allowed to access those keys

There are two first in this post:

1. I used bitbucket.org to host the repo. It’s quite nice and very free.
2. This post is relayed to my twitter account.

If you do not know perl, don’t fret.. it’s extremely easy to learn.

Found in a programming forum from non-coders for non-coders…

I lol’d!