Python #define equivalent

Question

I'm developing a Hebrew python library for my toddler, who doesn't speak English yet. So far I've managed to make it work (function names and variables work fine). The problem is with 'if', 'while', 'for', etc. statements. if this were C++, for ex., I'd use

#define if אם

are there are any alternatives for #define in Python?

****EDIT***** For now a quick and dirty solution works for me; instead of running the program I run this code:

def RunReady(Path):
    source = open(Path, 'rb')
    program = source.read().decode()
    output = open('curr.py', 'wb')

    program = program.replace('כל_עוד', 'while')
    program = program.replace('עבור', 'for')
    program = program.replace('אם', 'if')
    program = program.replace(' ב ', ' in ')
    program = program.replace('הגדר', 'def')
    program = program.replace('אחרת', 'else')
    program = program.replace('או', 'or')
    program = program.replace('וגם', 'and')
    output.write(program.encode('utf-8'))
    output.close()
    source.close()
    import curr

current_file = 'Sapir_1.py'
RunReady(current_file)

Answer 1

Python 3 has 33 keywords of which only a few are used by beginners:

['False', 'None', 'True', 'and', 'as', 'assert', 'break', 'class', 'continue', 'def', 'del', 'elif', 'else', 'except', 'finally', 'for', 'from', 'global', 'if', 'import', 'in', 'is', 'lambda', 'nonlocal', 'not', 'or', 'pass', 'raise', 'return', 'try', 'while', 'with', 'yield']

Given that Python doesn't support renaming keywords it's probably easier to teach a few of these keywords along with teaching programming.

Answer 2

How about if you add the #define stuff then run the c preprocessor (but not the compiler) which will give you a python source.