Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'python,': 0.02; 'variant': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'worse': 0.09; '"good': 0.16; 'amiga': 0.16; 'processor,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'silly': 0.16; 'wed,': 0.16; 'feb': 0.19; 'statement': 0.23; "i've": 0.23; 'feature': 0.24; 'command': 0.24; 'pass': 0.25; 'converting': 0.27; 'skip:@ 10': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'chris': 0.28; 'arguments.': 0.29; 'code': 0.31; 'could': 0.32; 'turns': 0.33; 'url:home': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'another': 0.33; 'received:org': 0.36; 'really': 0.36; "wasn't": 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'anything': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'enough': 0.36; 'far': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'application': 0.40; 'skip:" 10': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'subject:...': 0.63; 'times': 0.63; '2013': 0.84; 'processor.': 0.84; 'dennis': 0.91; 'particulars': 0.91; 'received:108': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Opinion on best practice... Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:37:17 -0500 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <207d17ce-4bc7-487c-acde-6a7b9f66002b@googlegroups.com> <5111b826$0$29969$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-79-219-81.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1360172253 news.xs4all.nl 6866 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:40031 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:38298 On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:16:04 +1100, Chris Angelico declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > It feels silly enough translating this OS/2 batch script: > > @logon SOME_USER /pSOME_PASS /vl > @e:\rexx\load > @db2 start database manager > @exit > > into this REXX script: > > /* */ > "@logon SOME_USER /pSOME_PASS /vl" > "@e:\rexx\load" > "@db2 start database manager" > "@exit" > > And that's a change I've made myriad times (to \startup.cmd on many an > OS/2 boot drive) It's far far worse translating it into Python, Pike, > or any other "good language". > Though that is the nice feature of REXX*... Anything that wasn't parsable as a REXX statement was automatically sent to the current command processor. Converting such to Python turns into a mishmash of (pick your favorite) os.system(), subprocess.Popen(), etc. with their particulars of how to pass command line arguments. * {the Amiga variant was really powerful as it didn't take much to code an application so that it could be a command processor, including another ARexx script} -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/