[GRASS-dev] Re: thematic mapping scripts

2008-10-06 Thread Michael Barton
On Oct 6, 2008, at 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:19:38 +0200 From: Moritz Lennert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] porting r.in.wms to python To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Glynn Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED], grass-dev

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: thematic mapping scripts

2008-10-06 Thread Glynn Clements
Michael Barton wrote: Porting the existing script is not terribly hard (though it would be time consuming) Actually, porting non-trivial bash scripts can be quite difficult. The main problem is that the only data type is a string. So when some calculation is performed with e.g. 'echo $var |