I am having trouble finding one because “Whitespace” is a common word, but I’m curious if this can be done. Thanks.
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I am having trouble finding one because “Whitespace” is a common word, but I’m curious if this can be done. Thanks.
There is no such thing — it would require the whole Python language to be running in Whitespace – so that your Python program culd use functions, lists, and other built-ins, not to mention the standard library.
Such a thing could be achievable via Pypy – you could write a Whitespace backend — An effort I doubt could find funding or support.
However, a “one man hack” to get there might be changing the Python byte-code ops to use only whitespace charaters. It would not be “whitespace compatible” – but you would have the same effect in the end: compiled Python files – those we know as “pyc”s could be composed of Whitespace only for the code. (but not for the data and meta-data markup), hacking a couple of files in the Python source tree.
Changing the opcodes themselves is easy – they are in the Lib/opcode.py file in a Python Source tree – but you would have to change the interpreter to work with multi-byte opcodes (as currently all opcodes are one byte+ parameters).