bfpy

Python to Brainfuck transpiler

What is BFPY

BFPY is an alternative Python runtime that uses Brainfuck as a bytecode.

How does BFPY works ?

BFPY uses the standard dis module to disassemble a given Python function, and translates one by one each bytecode instruction. It uses the Brainfuck memory as a stack like a virtual machine would.

Why BFPY ?

Boredom.

What is currently implemented ?

For instance, BFPY can only translate arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, floor division and power). There is still a lot of features to implement for it to be a proper Python runtime alternative

What remains to be implemented ?

I still have to translate more bytecode instruction to Brainfuck, but most can't be translated as long as I don't allow Brainfuck to deal with more types (not just bytes, but also characters, integers, lists, and maybe dictionaries).

I plan on implementing those types by loading the memory with a bytearray given by a serialization of the said object, using marshal, but I don't know yet how to expand a single stack element size to support multiple bytes.