Re: *Python* Power Tools
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 06:53 pm, John Machin wrote: Micah wrote: Anyone know if there is any organized effort underway to implement the Python equivalent of Perl Power Tools http://ppt.perl.org/? If not, would starting this be a waste of effort since: +1 WOFTAM-of-the-year [...] Or would people really like to claim a pure Python set of UNIX utilities? Sorry, can't parse that last sentence. In other words, it'd be a purely aesthetic goal. Which is only a waste if art is. But then, I know *I'm* not going to spend time on it. ;-) -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: *Python* Power Tools
Micah wrote: Anyone know if there is any organized effort underway to implement the Python equivalent of Perl Power Tools http://ppt.perl.org/? If not, would starting this be a waste of effort since: - it's already being done in Perl? - cygwin thrives? - UNIX is already pervasive :-) ? Or would people really like to claim a pure Python set of UNIX utilities? There would be some use for a Python library that implements the functionality of these tools. Some of it already exists (difflib, shutil). Some is probably more difficult and less flexible to use from a lib that from straight python (cut). Perhaps that could be started either in the Python Cookbook (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/) or the Python Wiki (http://wiki.python.org/moin/). Just short explanations of how you would implement the functionality of various Unix utilities in Python. Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: *Python* Power Tools
John == John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John For windows users, apart from cygwin, there are a couple of John sources of binaries for *x command-line utilities (unxutils, John gnuwin32). unxutils is my personal favourite - cygwin is way too much an environment, and gets broken too easily. I for one would like to see various shell tools implemented in pure python, if only to be able to import them as a module and use cross platform tools that have more power than e.g. 'shutil' or 'os' functions. The API exposed through the module (as opposed to normal execution from shell) could also be much richer, providing hooks for calling own stuff for just-in-time error handling, progress notification etc. So no, it doesn't seem like bad idea at all. It's also something that could evolve gradually, and reach a useful stage (i.e. have several handy tools) quickly. -- Ville Vainio http://tinyurl.com/2prnb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
*Python* Power Tools
Anyone know if there is any organized effort underway to implement the Python equivalent of Perl Power Tools http://ppt.perl.org/? If not, would starting this be a waste of effort since: - it's already being done in Perl? - cygwin thrives? - UNIX is already pervasive :-) ? Or would people really like to claim a pure Python set of UNIX utilities? -- Micah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: *Python* Power Tools
Micah wrote: Anyone know if there is any organized effort underway to implement the Python equivalent of Perl Power Tools http://ppt.perl.org/? If not, would starting this be a waste of effort since: +1 WOFTAM-of-the-year - it's already being done in Perl? - cygwin thrives? For windows users, apart from cygwin, there are a couple of sources of binaries for *x command-line utilities (unxutils, gnuwin32). - UNIX is already pervasive :-) ? Or would people really like to claim a pure Python set of UNIX utilities? Sorry, can't parse that last sentence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
