[GRASS-dev] Re: Error when running a scrip in Windows-WinGRASS

[Hamish]

Helena wrote:
> Hi thereI have sent this message a couple of days ago... maybe it went
> without any noticing.

more likely no one knew the answer  :)

> Is it possible to have WinGRASS6.4 supporting only Python scrupts
> instead of Batch?

don't know, let us know if you get it to work  :)

If I understand Glynn's comments correctly it won't work through the main
build system, but for personal add-on scripts that's not the end of the
world.

the important things is that both the script and python.exe can be found
in the path. You'll probably need to give your script a .py extension, and
make sure that Windows associates .py with Python and knows to run them
with python.exe. A web search will show a number of hits on how to do that,
and there's a number of mostly untested attempts at it deep within the
mswindows/ package installer scripts in the grass source code.

If the .py filename extension stuff fails, maybe you could write a custom
.bat file which launches "python your_script.py", something similar to what
is done for the UNIX shell scripts that ship with WinGrass 6.x.

So I would guess that it is not impossible to do it. As far as I know there
is nothing fundamental in the parser (at run time) which would restrict
running a module written in any language.


good luck,
Hamish