Python/UNO/OpenOffice?

2006-09-29 Thread kenneth . m . mcdonald
Are then any currently active and reasonably mature Python plugins/ apis/whatever for programming/scripting OpenOffice? The page I've found is http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html, but it was last updated more than a year ago. Thanks, Ken -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Iterating by both element and index?...

2006-09-25 Thread kenneth . m . mcdonald
I'd like to iterate over a sequence by both element and index, something like for (element, index) in somefun(sequence): ... Obviously this is easy enough to code, but I seem to remember that such a function was added to standard Python at some point, but I just can't dig up a reference to it

Python to JavaScript Compiler? Anyone written such a beast?

2006-09-13 Thread kenneth . m . mcdonald
Of course, I'm not talking about something that would transform any Python code into semantically JavaScript code, but simply something that would analyze a "restricted" Python source file, and spit out equivalent JavaScript. The big advantage (as far as I'm concerned) is that one could make use of

Status of PyXPCOM?

2006-09-13 Thread kenneth . m . mcdonald
I'm waiting for PyXPCOM with bated breath, but always have a hard time figuring out what is actually happening with it--the ActiveState mailing list is mostly inactive, and web searches Always turn up very old, out of date pages. If it weren't for the fact that I know Mark Hammond is working,very,

Pros/Cons of Turbogears/Rails?

2006-08-27 Thread kenneth . m . mcdonald
First, I don't intend this to be a flame war, please. Python and Ruby are the only two languages I'd willingly work in (at least amongst common languages), and TurboGears and Rails seem roughly equivalent. I'm much more knowledgable about Python, but that's a minor issue--I've been intending to le