Show HN: A Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library

themichaellai wrote: post #3

What's the purpose of this library? To have similar syntax to python? I don't think these concepts are unique to python.

The current Swift standard library is actually very small and limited, so Pythonic.swift is an attempt to extend the Swift language with a more comprehensive standard library that quite a few developers are already familiar with. I love both Python and Swift, so I thought why not let them marry? :-)

Re: Show HN: A Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library

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Post by bigdubs » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 10:26 PM UTC

I started doing the same thing with some of the .net bcl classes.

https://github.com/wcharczuk/CoreLib

very hard to actually use though because frameworks are broken-ish in xcode6 right now.

Re: Show HN: A Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library

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Post by arknave » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 11:13 PM UTC

This reminds me of boa.js - https://github.com/Zolmeister/Boa

Python's got a great standard library with lots of common functions. Many of these functions should be standard.

Re: Show HN: A Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library

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Post by mseri » Mon, Jul 07, 2014, 11:15 PM UTC

Is it compatible with the changes introduced in Swift with beta 3?

Re: Show HN: A Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library

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Post by practicalswift » Tue, Jul 08, 2014, 5:55 AM UTC

mseri wrote: post #7

Is it compatible with the changes introduced in Swift with beta 3?

Yes, the project was updated to compile without warnings in Xcode6-Beta3 directly after the release. Please note that most of the changes introduced in Xcode6-Beta3 are breaking, so the project won't compile in the earlier betas any more. So go get Xcode6-Beta3 if you want to use Pythonic.swift :-)