Visual Python programming and decompilers?

geremy condra debatem1 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 15:16:26 EST 2010


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Ludolph <ludolph at openhazel.co.za> wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> At work I have been exposed to a Agile Platform called OutSystems. It
> allows you to visually program your web applications
> http://i.imgur.com/r2F0i.png and I find the idea very intriguing.
>
> So I have started to play around with the idea on how will I be able
> to visually represent Python code as in the above image and then allow
> the programmer to change some of the flow/code/logic visually and then
> get it back as python source code. I don't know if this have been
> tried before and after some googling I can't find anything like this,
> so maybe I'm just lacking basic googling skills or a python solution
> like the above does not exist yet.
>
> If anybody knows of such solution please let me know, so that I don't
> spend a lot of time recreating the wheel. Otherwise help me out on the
> following problem:
>
> I decided I can use byteplay3 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/byteplay/ to
> disassemble the code to workable objects, It even allows me to rebuild
> the objects to bytecode. So if I define patterns on how python
> interrupts the source code to bytecode I can visually represent this
> and also so convert my visual representations back to bytecode.
>
> The only problem I have at the moment is how will I get this bytecode
> back to python source code. I have googled for python decompiler but
> only found old projects like unpyc, decompyle and some online
> services. I would like to know if anybody know of a well maintained or
> at least recent module that can help me accomplish the above
> mentioned, because I'm hoping I can implement this in Python 3.1.
>
> So any input or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> --
> Ludolph Neethling
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

Maybe something like http://www.pypes.org/?

They were at pycon and sounded pretty into what they were
talking about- I'd send them an email.

Geremy Condra



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