Translate java code into python source code using java2python tool

Python Programming Portal

Written by Administrator

Tuesday, 06 March 2007

java2python claims to be a simple but effective tool to translate Java source code into Python source code. Troy Melhase, the creator of the java2python project has announced the first release.

java2python is licensed under the GNU General Public License 2.0. To translate code, java2python requires python 2.5, ANTLR and PyANTLR. The following is working with java2python 0.1 version:

    * class definitions, inner class definitions
    * method definitions
    * most expressions
    * if statements, for statements, while statements
    * raises statement
    * type translation (e.g, String -> str)
    * class member access to instance attributes

Troy Melhase says "I've written java2python with the idea that it should provide a high degree of customization to the generation process. It allows for multiple, cumulative configuration modules, which means you can have a configuration for an entire translation project, and also have configurations for individual modules.

Let me add a few more waffles before concluding. Yes, I know Python is not Java. Yes, I know that this tool doesn't translate the meaning of the input source code. Yes, the tool does not produce idiomatic Python. And yes, I know the tool isn't even close to perfect. But even with all of those problems, I know this is better than what I was doing."

java2python is available on Google code at http://code.google.com/p/java2python/

Add comments:

Comments

You must javascript enabled to use this form

Latest
Scripting Languages See A Cyclic Rise & Fall Python Is The Truly Object Oriented Successor To Perl Dynamic Web Development With The Django Framework

Popular
I'm amazed at how far Python has come Python Interview Questions Incorporating HTML into wxPython-Part2

Copyright 2004 Rightrix Solutions. All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
Views expressed at PythonThreads.com reflect the views of the authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect those of PythonThreads.com.