Has anyone experimented with using Python within LC?

[Geoff Canyon]

I just checked, and this in a stack script works perfectly:

function pythonFile p
   put the filename of this stack into fp
   set the itemdel to "/"
   put the long seconds into fn
   replace "." with "_" in fn
   put "_temp.py" after fn
   put fn into item -1 of fp
   put p into url ("file:" & fp)
   return shell(quote & "<path to python>" & quote && quote & fp & quote)
end pythonFile

In the real world you'd probably want to set up a single external file (or
set of files? if performance is important and the files need to be used
repeatedly?) and check to make sure you're not accidentally overwriting
something.

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 4:07 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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