I'm trying to make a program that takes a c file and converts it into python code and was wondering if something already exists that is similar. Basically, I will input a simple file in c with normal c features and the program will have to output the same program but in python instead.

Thanks in advance, Ankit

CodePudding user response：

The simplest answer to your question is just "no". Coding is a complicated process which requires creativity and nuance, and we're not really at the stage where a program can do that.

You could probably create something which you can input Python into and it outputs C for the equivalent command for basic things like "print", "for i in range(n):" etc but more complicated stuff is going to require a human at least for now.

I tried to do the same thing to turn Python into Java. It didn't go well and I concluded that it's basically impossible or at least much harder than I thought.

CodePudding user response：

You have to make c compiler that generate python code. Try to see if you can learn how c is written to convert it to python. You could also use awk Unix command to make a basic interpreter line by line. The first thing to do may be to have clean formatted c code to enable easy translation :

• { => add at end of code line and increment indentation by 4 spaces
• } => decrement indentation by 4 spaces
• ; => end of line
• …

It may be huge work.