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But wy?

Being an Emacs head, I like sexp based syntax for edition and navigation. Now I can edit hy like any lisp and push it to python hosting servers.

my 2 cents.

Helluw, one of the core devs here. This was originally an idea just to display whats possible with the Python AST. It's pretty neat. The result is an kinda fancy lisp variant with bidirectional interop, macros and all the fancy lisp stuff.

Is this something that can be integrated easily with existing Python code? I'd be interested in implementing a small module in Hy, rather than Python, and then include/use/consume it from Python.

All the uses I saw listed on the blog were as a replacement for Python, it seemed like, so this might be a direction of integration that wasn't intended.

edit: Perhaps I should read more and ask less. It looks like this is what `import_file_to_module` does, right? :-)

All you gotta do is import hy before the given hy module.

Hy uses a metaimporter to parse the Hy code and hand the Python compiler AST. So you can import any hy file like normal Python and use the code. Its that simple.

Is there some way to incorporate Hy snippets into an existing Python script? The plan is that this would allow me to incrementally translate my Python scripts into Hy (I'd start with the easy bits, obviously).

Hy core here!

It works both ways, and bi-directional interop is intended! Just `import hy` then you can import any `.hy` on `sys.path` :D

(yes, this means you can make Hy code pip installable, just like Hy itself!)

Wow. That sounds amazing!

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