Pyswahili is a light weight python library that helps you write your python code in Swahili.

pyswahili is not a completely independent language but more of a swahili version of python language, syntax and language grammar is equivalent to python one with only change of keywords from english to swahili.

Transpiler(Pyswahili) translates swahili version of python to english version so that it can be intepreted by the python Intepreter.

There is no official extension for pyswahili, so for now .py is fine.

Similar to Python, Pyswahili supports both modes; the Read-evaluate-print(Repl) loop and Script mode.

Repl enable you to interactively execute pyswahili code line by line without requiring to write a complete program while on other side Script mode requires you to write your Pyswahili code on a file and run it as whole.

To get started using Pyswahili you might need to either clone or manually download the repository and then use pip command to install the package just as shown below.

pip install pyswahili

It might require admistrator priveledge to install so use sudo during the installation.

$ git clone https://github.com/Kalebu/pyswahili
$ cd pyswahili
$ sudo pip3 install -e pyswahili

$ pip3 install pyswahili

If you're a Windows user, I would recommed running command prompt(cmd) with admistrator priveledge during the installation.

$ git clone https://github.com/Kalebu/pyswahili
$ cd pyswahili
$ pip install -e pyswahili

$ pip install pyswahili

Now that the pyswahili package is installed, we can start playing with it, To involve repl just run pyswahili without any argument just as shown below;

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author: Kalebu Jordan (github.com/kalebu)
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The Pyswahili REPL is used the sameway you would user a normal python REPL, supporting basic statements to complex logic with block statements written in swahili,just as illustrated in the example below.

-> a = 12
-> a
12
-> a + 89
101
-> andika('umri wako ni', a)
umri wako ni 12
-> a = a + 13
-> a
25
-> kama a%2==0:
...     andika(a, 'ni namba shufwa')
...zaidi:
...     andika(a,'ni namba witiri')
...
25 ni namba witiri

You can user keyword njia to define a function in pyswahili and andika to print the result of the function just as shown below.

-> njia jumla(a, b):
...     rudisha a + b 
...
-> andika(jumla(20, 21))
41
-> andika(jumla('hello ', '2021'))
hello 2021

You can also use keyword wakati to define a while loop, and vunja to break the loo just as shown in the example below.

-> x = 3   
-> wakati x>0:
...     andika(x*10)
...     x = x - 1
...
30
20
10

In script mode, you're supposed to have write your pyswahili code in a file and then pyswahili will run it as whole, your code should follow pyswahili syntax (python one) for it to be evaluated.

In the example below we used a for-loop to print a table of any entered number.

1. We used keyword ingiza to get input from the user.
2. We used keyword ikiwa to define a for loop.
3. We used keyword andika to print the result.

- hello.py

namba = ingiza('Namba yoyote : ')
namba = int(namba)

ikiwa no imo katiya(1, 12):
    andika(no, 'x ', namba, '=', no*namba)

You can run your script by using the command pyswahili followed by the name of your script just as shown below.

$ pyswahili hello.py 
Namba yoyote : 8 
1 x  8 = 8
2 x  8 = 16
3 x  8 = 24
4 x  8 = 32
5 x  8 = 40
6 x  8 = 48
7 x  8 = 56
8 x  8 = 64
9 x  8 = 72
10 x  8 = 80
11 x  8 = 88

If you want to see all the supported keywords in pyswahili, you can view all of them by visiting Pyswahili supported keywords, Keywords are not final, so whenever you see a need for a keyword change feel free to reach me directly.

This can be achieved by using Python builtin lexical scanner tokenize for python source code, which is capable of breaking the python source code into pieces strings with their type (NAME, OP, NUMBER, NEWLINE, IDENT) and so on.

More documentation abouut tokenize can be found on its official documentation

Wanna contribute ? then please contributing.md to see how

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If you encounter issue with the usage of the package, feel free raise an issue so as we can fix it as soon as possible(ASAP) or just reach me directly through email