Hi,
Am 04.09.2007 um 20:29 schrieb Karl Sweitzer: > Is Python's appscript suitable and sufficiently mature for deployment > in a commercial application? You'll have to find out about the commercial part yourself, but... I started Python (with appscript, py2app, pyobjc (which you'll all need if want to go commercial)) about 5 month ago and it's simply the best tool I have. It takes a while (like any new language you learn) and AppleEvent Object hierarchies take their own time until they do what you want... plus you not only learn a new language but also some new FrameWorks. > With the demise of VBA in Microsoft Office, we are faced with > transitioning scripts that manipulate equations in Office and manage > the interoperation of our application with Office. AppleScript is an > obvious candidate, but coyote ugly in the eyes of many developers, > including us. We are looking for viable alternatives. I havent looked at recent Office versions but the older ones were (IIRC Word 8 or 9) had an impressive AppleEvent dictionary. > Python, augmented by appscript to access the Word Object Model, is > the best candidate we've identified thus far. However, we have > negligible experience with Python and zero experience with appscript. > Further, we note that appscript has not reached version 1.0. Most open source projects don't have a marketing department that pushes version numbers unnecessary. They tick by a different clock... and are usable at v0.1 ;-) appscript is very mature. > Has anybody out there used Python and appscript for a commercial > product? Not me. > Does it deserve active consideration? Yes! > Are there other > candidates we should be considering? The only candidates I would consider also use appscript (rb-appscript & objc-appscript; together with py-appscript in the sourceforge repository). If you're into Lisp: there seems to be some decent AppleEvent support in one of the commercial Lisps. I haven't used it and am not sure which one it was (MCL or LispWorks). If you find another one, please let me know. I switched over from Frontier and have nearly identical opinions about AppleScript... > If you have an opinion--or better yet, experience in this area--we'd > like to hear from you. <opinion> The ability to develop in an interactive environment (have a look at your objects at the command line) together with very rich libraries and frameworks and the ability to tap into the world of cocoa make py- appscript the __only__ candidate I would consider for your needs </opinion> Take a look at the appscript, pyobjc and py2app examples. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyobjc/ http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html -karsten _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
