Show HN: A Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library

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55 points·practicalswift··7 comments

This reminds me of boa.js - https://github.com/Zolmeister/Boa

Python's got a great standard library with lots of common functions. Many of these functions should be standard.

What's the purpose of this library? To have similar syntax to python? I don't think these concepts are unique to python.

The current Swift standard library is actually very small and limited, so Pythonic.swift is an attempt to extend the Swift language with a more comprehensive standard library that quite a few developers are already familiar with. I love both Python and Swift, so I thought why not let them marry? :-)

I started doing the same thing with some of the .net bcl classes.

https://github.com/wcharczuk/CoreLib

very hard to actually use though because frameworks are broken-ish in xcode6 right now.

Python "inspired" standard library.

Is it compatible with the changes introduced in Swift with beta 3?

Yes, the project was updated to compile without warnings in Xcode6-Beta3 directly after the release. Please note that most of the changes introduced in Xcode6-Beta3 are breaking, so the project won't compile in the earlier betas any more. So go get Xcode6-Beta3 if you want to use Pythonic.swift :-)

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