Python Project (Release 0.1) – week 2

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Sep 10

I’ve started my project for osd600. It is a tool, written in Python, translating a source file written in one programming language into another language. The translation will be done by Large Language Model AI(such as ChatGPT).

So far, I have implemented a part that gets arguments and options user enters when running the tool and reads the file(checked if it is properly read by printing on console).
Currently, to run this tool in terminal, user needs to use this commend

python3 translator.py source_file -t python

I personally find it ugly. Instead, what I want is running it with the following commend

translator source_file -t python -o result

From my 3 hours research, I learned that I should use Poetry(.toml) to do this. I could create a script in bin folder (connecting it to the python file with softlink). However, it wouldn’t work for other users, since it is set up locally. As a result, I need to use Poetry.
How it works is, it creates a virtual environment and generate a script in the virtual environment that can run the python script(the tool), so that I can run the python script without specifying “python3”

Since it is new to me and quite complicated, I need to study more about it.

There are a lot to do for release 0.1

1. Using Poetry
2. Integrating LLM API into the tool