Lean client for Python

This experimental package aims to help talking to the Lean theorem prover from Python.

You can install it by cloning this repository and running pip install path_to_your_clone.

Core interface

The core piece is the lean_client.commands module which bridges from JSON messages produced and consumed by lean --server to python objects. This core does not help at all with handling interactivity, in particular the fact that Lean processes things in parallel and answer somewhat impredictably (depending on the presence of errors, or simply on elaboration and proof checking time). Interactivity can be handled only in an asynchronous environment. We provide (very partial) support for two such environments with very different patterns.

Qt interface

The module lean_client.qt_server defines a QtLeanServer class which allows communication with Lean from a Qt event loop. Qt handles asynchronicity using signals and slots, hence this example can be adapted to any framework based on call-backs. It requires PyQt5 (and its C++ dependencies) that you can install using pip install path_to_your_clone[qt]. See the example program qt_interface in the examples folder of this repository. This example opens a Qt windows which asks for a sequence of instruction proving a simple lemma (you can go back using Ctrl-Z and quit using Ctrl-Q). The following animated Gif shows it in action.

Trio/asyncio interface

The module lean_client.trio_server defines a TrioLeanServer class which allows communication with Lean from a Trio nursery. This framework is built on top of python's asyncio, hence can be adapted to any framework based on async/await. It requires trio which you can install using pip install path_to_your_clone[trio]. See the example program trio_example in the examples folder of this repository. This example displays the tactic state for every line of examples/test.lean that has a non-empty tactic state.

You can install all optional dependencies at once using pip install path_to_your_clone[all].