grass going to python scripting (was Re: [GRASS-user] new module: r.surf.volcano)

[Paolo Craveri]

2009/4/21 maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>:
> Thanks Michael
>
>> GRASS will continue to work with bash on platforms that support
>> it--primarily Linux and Unix.
>
> This gives me a sigh of relief at the moment

+1
>
>> However, we are using Python for the GUI now and Python has a number of
>> advantages over bash for scripting. It is a full-featured programming
>> language and hence more powerful than bash. It is also very cross-platform
>> and will run on more OS platforms than bash. So we'd like to encourage users
>> to begin writing scripts in Python.
>
> I learned shell scripting primarily because of GRASS.  Probably now is
> the time to start learning Python (for GRASS, QGIS and R).  A
> beginners tutorial would be an excellent material to lessen the
> barrier.  Just like Chapter 9.2 of the GRASS book.
>
+1

I am totally agree with you.
There  are excellent python tutorials but a brief introduction on how
doing same simply and common  task in Grass with python  would be
great.

ciao
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