[GRASS-dev] grass and python

[Trevor Wiens]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:59:20 +0100
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:

> 
> Trevor Wiens wrote:
> 
> > > If anyone can find a real language which is "good enough" on all of
> > > Unix, Windows (Cygwin and native) and OSX, I'll quite happily rewrite
> > > all of GRASS' shell scripts.
> > 
> > Python is easy to install on Windows. So with an offer like that, I
> > can't help asking if any of the interactive Python shells are to your
> > knowledge good enough. Or perhaps what in you mind defines an
> > interactive shell environment that is good enough to replace bash?
> 
> The main issue is the ability to have scripts which can be run as e.g. 
> "d.save", and not having to use "d.save.py". This needs to work both
> from a shell and from system/exec/popen/spawn/etc functions provided
> by various languages.

A series so simple wrapper scripts might be needed to make sure that
issuing a map.draw command executes map.draw.py, but it seems desirable
to me to make sure that CLI use of commands would be the same no matter
what the shell of choice.

T
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