Pudgies (kind of how you'd pronounce pyjs) is a JavaScript-to-Python compiler and runtime library.

It currently is in very early stages of development, only supporing very basic assignments of strings and numbers.

The eventual goal is to be able to compile .js files to .pyc files which will be importable from within other python modules. These js modules will able to be used either just like any other Python module, or sandboxed from the rest of the Python world for safe execution of untrusted scripts.

At the moment, there are functions to take a string of JavaScript and get either a Python AST or a Python Module object. In future versions, the ability to save modules to .pyc files will be added.

Pudgies works by parsing JavaScript into an abstract syntax tree (via the pynarcissus JavaScript parser), and then that AST is translated into a Python AST, which is then compiled using Python's built-in compile function.

The resulting code object can then either be executed within the context of a new module to create a usable module, or written out to a .pyc file, which can then be imported via Python's built-in import functionality.