---
name: "hy3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "hy"
version: "1.0.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hy3"
---

# hy3(1)

a Lisp dialect that's embedded in Python

## NAME

hy - a Lisp dialect that's embedded in Python

## SYNOPSIS

**hy \[\<file.hy\>\]**

## DESCRIPTION

Hy (or "Hylang" for long) is a multi-paradigm general-purpose programming language in the Lisp family. It's implemented as a kind of alternative syntax for Python. Compared to Python, Hy offers a variety of extra features, generalizations, and syntactic simplifications, as would be expected of a Lisp. Compared to other Lisps, Hy provides direct access to Python's built-ins and third-party Python libraries, while allowing you to freely mix imperative, functional, and object-oriented styles of programming.

To get a list of allowable arguments to hy, type

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  **hy --help**

and for more documentation consult

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  **https://hylang.org/**

This generic manpage was written by IOhannes m zmoelnig \<zmoelnig@iem.at\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others) as a replacement when no real manpage could be generated.