Has anyone experimented with using Python within LC?

[Bob Sneidar]

Interesting. Ostensibly you could use low level file commands to create they python file? Or does the Python script need to be processed by Python first? 

Bob S


> On Jul 20, 2023, at 12:33 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I've now figured out that calling a Python file from within LC is as easy
> as:
> 
> put shell(quote & "<path_to_python>" & quote && quote &
> "<path_to_python_file>" & quote)
> 
> Then whatever gets print()'ed in Python gets returned to LC. Has anyone
> done work this way and has ideas on best practices for some sort of
> 
> 1. generate python code
> 2. write python code to a file
> 3. write data to a (separate?) file
> 4. call the code
> 5. process the results
> 
> ...loop?
> 
> gc