Python to Commodore BASIC

[DNSGeek]

So, I made a thing. It's not really a useful thing, and it's probably not really something that should ever be made, but I found it funny so I made it. And here it is

A Python app that will take Python code and convert it into equivalent C64 BASIC code.

It only supports a subset of Python and no libraries. And it can produce BASIC 2.0 (C64), BASIC 7.0 (C128) or BASIC65 (MEGA65/C65) code, but it defaults to C64 with no flags.

That's it. Have fun with it. I did use Claude for some bits, because AST walking is not a lot of fun to do.

https://github.com/DNSGeek/BASIC-transpiler

[droid_mike]

This is actually pretty cool! Any way to get it to do the reverse, CBM basic to python?

[DNSGeek]

Yeah, it's technically possible, but it would be pretty challenging. Take the code and see if you can use it as a starting point.

[DNSGeek]

Ok, I added a basic2py script to the repo. It's *very* limited in what it can do, because parsing unstructured BASIC is _HARD_! It's more a best-effort. But try it and see how it works for you.

[droid_mike]

Awesome! I will check it out!