Dear community members, My name is Nikhil and I will be creating a C and Fortran Parser for SymPy as my GSoC 2019 project and this thread describes my project and my plan to complete it.
My project is to create a parser for SymPy which can convert C and Fortran code to SymPy syntax directly. Currently, if anyone wants to use SymPy for any C or Fortran project, they have to manually convert the equations/code from these languages to SymPy which is a very time consuming and exhausting task. All this effort can be avoided after the implementation of the project. I will be using Clang to help in parsing C and LFortran to parse Fortran. The initial plan is to use Clang and cppyy to extract C/C++ AST which can be converted to SymPy syntax. Simultaneously, work will be done on LFortran and it's API. LFortran will be used to convert Fortran code to AST then ASR which will be converted to SymPy syntax. I plan to complete the C parser and some part of the Fortran parser before first evaluation. So that community feedback can be taken and implemented on the C parser while the Fortran parser is being worked on before the second evaluation. The final month will be solving any issues and bugs that still remain and finalizing the implementations of the parsers in SymPy. I would also like to keep the documentation and tests updated along with the development of the parsers as parsing from different languages is a sensitive job and small missed issues can create problems for people later in their work. Once the project will be complete, along with Ankit's project who is working on improving the other end of code conversion, converting code from SymPy to other languages; people will be able to take their codes directly from their language, perform the required work in SymPy, and then convert the code back to their respective languages' source code without any extra effort. It will save a lot of time and effort for a lot of people. It will make SymPy more efficient and useful for people. Any suggestion, improvements, bug finds from any community member will be appreciated. Regards, Nikhil Maan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/81dae064-9e33-4861-bbb9-3da6530bc7c7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
