Side by side examples of how you would write the same code in Python and PHP.

php_to_python.md

PHP to Python

You can see some more examples of PHP to Python at hyperpolyglot

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PHP

$x = "nice";
$y = "ass";

if ($x=="nice" && $y=="ass") {
    echo "quite the tooshy";
} else {
    echo "Go fuck yourself";
}

Python

x = "nice"
y = "ass"

if(x=="nice" and y=="ass"):
    print("quite the tooshy")
else:
    print("Go fuck yourself")

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PHP

$x = array(1, 2, 3);
foreach($x as $a) {
    echo $a.PHP_EOL
}
echo 'Loop is over'.PHP_EOL;

Python

x = [1, 2, 3]
for a in x:
    print(a)
print("Loop is over")

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PHP

$x = array(
    'uno'=>'one', 
    'dos'=>'two'
);
if array_key_exists('uno', $x) {
    echo $x['uno'].PHP_EOL;
}

Python

x = {
    'uno':'one', 
    'dos':'two'
}
if x.get('uno'):
    print(x['uno'])

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PHP

$x = array('a', 'b', 'c');
foreach ($x as $i => $item) {
    echo "$i $item\n"; 
}

Python

x = ['a', 'b', 'c']
for i, item in enumerate(x):
    print i, item 

# 0 a
# 1 b
# 2 C

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PHP

for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++) {
    echo "The number is " . $i . "<br />";
}

Python

for i in range(5):
    print("The number is %i <br />" % i)

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PHP

foreach ($x as $k => $v) {
    echo $k ." ". $v;
}

Python

for k, v in x.items():
    print k, v

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PHP

$i=1;
while($i<=5) {
    echo $i;
    $i++;
}

Python

i=1
while i <= 5:
    print(i)
    i+=1

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PHP

function hiya() {
    return "hi there";
}

Python

def hiya():
    return "hi there"

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PHP

$y = (1, 2, 3)
$z = array()
foreach($y as $value) {
    array_push($z, $value+1);
}

Python

y = [1, 2, 3]
z = [x+1 for x in y]

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PHP

$b ? $a : $c

Python

a if b else c

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PHP

explode(" ", "do re mi fa")
str_split("abcd")

Python

'do re mi fa'.split()
list('abcd')

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PHP

array_slice($a, 1);
array_slice($a, 2, 2);

Python

a[1:]
a[2:4]

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PHP

is_null($v);
!isset($v);

Python

v == None
v is None

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PHP

class Customer {
    private $first_name, $last_name;
 
    public function setData($first_name, $last_name) {
        $this->first_name = $first_name;
        $this->last_name = $last_name;
    }
 
    public function printData() {
        echo $this->first_name . " : " . $this->last_name;
    }
}

Python

class Customer(object):
    def __init__(self, first_name, last_name):
        self.first_name = first_name
        self.last_name  = last_name

    def printData(self):
        print '{0} : {1}'.format(self.first_name, self.last_name)

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PHP

try {
    do_something();
}
catch (ErrorException $e) {
    echo 'error occured'
}

Python

try:
    do_something()
except ErrorException, e:
    print('error occured')

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PHP

$array = array('lastname', 'email', 'phone');
$comma_separated = implode(",", $array);

Python

array = ['lastname', 'email', 'phone']
comma_separated = ','.join(array)

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PHP

$vowels = array('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U');
$onlyconsonants = str_replace($vowels, '', 'Hello World');

Python

vowels = ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u', 'A', 'E', 'I', 'O', 'U']
onlyconsonants = 'Hello World'.replace(vowels, '')

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PHP

strlen('hi')

Python

len('hi')

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PHP

require "functions.php"; 

Python

import functions

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PHP

switch ($i) {
    case 0:
        echo "i equals 0";
        break;
    case 1:
        echo "i equals 1";
        break;
    case 2:
        echo "i equals 2";
        break;
}

Python

if(i==0):
    print('i equals 0')
elif(i==1):
    print('i equals 1')
elif(i==2):
    print('i equals 2')

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PHP

Python