PRpritambaral·Apr 18, 2022
For Python3: https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3
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burgled-batteries3
A bridge between Python and Lisp (FFI bindings, etc.)
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5 sourcesJulias interop with Python is excellent: https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyCall.jl (also with R, see RCall.jl). It's just not statically typed, so the original problem is not solved - albeit Julia being the better language for scientific purposes.
CL could also be great language-wise (https://digikar99.github.io/py4cl2/, https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3) but I don't know how good the interop is in reality since I haven't tried it.
In The road to OCaml 5.0> I love Lisp but boring old Python has the libraries I need.
¿Por qué no los dos?
https://github.com/metawilm/cl-python
https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3
https://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/
http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/pyffi
In Modern, functional Common Lisp: myths and best practicesI'm always curious when this comes up: which libraries in particular do you have in mind? If you love Lisp and they're really absent, a short list would at least provide a data point for something that would be desirable and ambitious newcomers could cut their teeth on.
Anyway I don't think the library ecosystem is so dire... Lots of good libraries are distributed through quicklisp. It's pretty straightforward to wrap a C library. (You can even do C++ easily if you switch CL implementations to Clasp...) If you need Java libraries, you can switch CL implementations again and use ABCL. (But of course all your CL code and CL libraries still work.) Lastly, for Python there's https://github.com/pinterface/burgled-batteries (and https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3 for py3) that even in an incomplete state might suit your particular lib
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rary needs.
Perhaps this capability isn't very compelling since Python can also access C without trouble (and Java via Jython, .NET via IronPython)? Well I guess all I have left to ask is whether you've considered there might be libraries (or features) in Lisp that would be needed that don't have equivalents in Python? What do you do then? One possible library for admittedly niche applications that came to mind was a hierarchical task planner (https://github.com/shop-planner/shop3) but I forgot someone did indeed make a Python library (https://github.com/oubiwann/pyhop) based on an older version (SHOP1) of the background work, so depending on if you need the v3 features it might suffice.
There is a fork that supports Python 3:
https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3
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