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Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python"

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On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:22:59 -0400, Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com>
declaimed the following:

>
>I was quite pleased to see that there was a Rexx/Regina for linux, and for 
>about 10 minutes thought I could make use of the library of ARexx code Jim 
>& I had carved up and had running on the amiga, but was very disappointed 
>to see that Regina wasn't coupled to the os itself in any way, causing our 
>scripts to barf and exit within the first 3 or 4 lines of code.
>

	No surprise given the lack of real /interactive/ IPC in Windows and
Linux. A version of REXX running on (Open)VMS might have a chance -- as VMS
Mailboxes were a (protected memory equivalent) of Amiga message ports... So
a means of "address other_application" could be mapped to opening
"other_application_port".

	I vaguely recall once using the "advanced" calls from the back of the
manual, and having multiple ARexx scripts talking to each other via
"address other_script"

>
>I've seen python doing some heady stuff in the last 5 years, but the 
>learning curve is pretty steep for my now aging wet ram, which will be 79 
>years old in a few days, so the scripting language here at the Heskett 
>Ranchette is bash, and there is quite a boatload of that running as 
>background daemons right now.  So I lurk, reading what goes by, hoping I'll 
>learn enough python from osmosis to get comfortable with it.  From all 
>indications, it is todays "ARexx" of scripting languages.
>

	Having been spoiled by ARexx myself... No... Python will never be
/that/... Even subprocess.popen() doesn't allow for the easy control of
other programs. One is stuck with M$ COM (the win32 extension library or,
more portable maybe [if the libraries are ported] ctypes to do what
"address ..." did in ARexx. 
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 02:58 -0700
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 04:43 -0700
    Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 14:39 +0100
      Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 08:50 -0700
        Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 09:28 -0700
          Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 02:34 +1000
            Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 10:40 -0700
              Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Aseem Bansal <asmbansal2@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 10:51 -0700
              Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 12:06 +1000
              Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-09-21 02:22 -0400
              Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-09-22 12:44 -0400
            Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-20 22:31 -0400
              Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 12:54 +1000
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-09-20 06:53 -0500
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-21 00:26 +1000
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 09:23 -0700
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Jugurtha Hadjar <jugurtha.hadjar@gmail.com> - 2013-09-20 18:07 +0100
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-20 18:26 -0400
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-09-22 14:55 -0400
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-09-22 15:48 -0400
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-09-22 23:29 -0400
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-09-23 00:10 -0400
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2013-09-23 19:34 -0700
  Re: What minimum should a person know before saying "I know Python" Schneider <js@globe.de> - 2013-09-26 12:16 +0200

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