Converting Python Code to PHP

Question

Is there a software converter out there that can automatically convert this python code to PHP?

#!/usr/bin/python
import math

def calcNumEntropyBits(s):
            


        

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any Python-to-PHP converter in the wild, but it should be a trivial task to port and the similarities are quite easy to spot:

function calcNumEntropyBits($s) {
        if (strlen($s) <= 0) return 0.0;
        $symCount = array();
        foreach (str_split($s) as $c) {
                if (!in_array($c,$symCount)) $symCount[$c] = 1;
                else $symCount[$c] ++;
        }
        $entropy = 0.0;
        foreach ($symCount as $c=>$n) {
                $prob = $n / (float)strlen($s);
                $entropy += $prob * log($prob)/log(2);
        }
        if ($entropy >= 0.0) return 0.0;
        else return -($entropy*strlen($s));
}

function testEntropy($s):
        printf("Bits of entropy in '%s' is %.2f",$s,calcNumEntropyBits($s));

testEntropy('hello world');
testEntropy('bubba dubba');
testEntropy('aaaaaaaaaaa');
testEntropy('aaaaabaaaaa');
testEntropy('abcdefghijk');

The last few lines in the first function could have also been written as a standard PHP ternary expression:

return ($entropy >= 0.0)? 0.0: -($entropy*strlen($s));