[joke] Any tool to translate PHP to Python?

[Bruce Dickey]

"Will Stuyvesant" <hwlgw at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > [Bruce Dickey]
> > > [Bruno Desthuilliers]
> > > Bruce Dickey wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I have some PHP scripts I'm moving from my web server to the local
PC.
> > >> They just do file manipulation.
> > >>
> > >> Anybody know of a tool for translating PHP to Python?
> > >
> > >
> > > Er... What about a programmer ?-)
> > >
> > > (sorry, could not resist)
> > > Bruno
> > >
> >
> > Heh heh. Point taken. I actually *was* assuming I would be the tool --
> > ...
> > It seems to me that for folks migrating from PHP to Python, a translator
> > would be a handy tool.
>
> Um, was the point was really taken?  Translating programming languages
> is *very* hard.  Otherwise, it would be possible to just translate
> Python to C, with all the obvious benefits.
>
> Perhaps automatic translation of some standard PHP patterns is
> possible?  No, still too hard.  Think about it.
>
> --
> The subspace _W inherits the other 8 properties of _V. And there
> aren't even any property taxes.
>                 -- J. MacKay, Mathematics 134b

Yes, it was really taken. I know its hard, but not impossible. Source
translators exist for a number of languages, such as Basic to Pascal, Pascal
to C, C to Pascal, VB to Python, Java to C++....
Some are only partial, but that provides a good start.

That people have created compilers for that pathological language C++ shows
what can be done with determination. PHP is a (much) simpler language.

I have no plans to write a PHP to Python translator, however. I have only a
few small scripts to convert.

Bruce