<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 2, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hallo,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If we want a lot of functionality fast then python seems like the best<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">solution, coding the same thing in C will take longer (at least for me,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">who does not even know python).</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Attached is a helluva lot of functionality as a Python script for</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">pyext consisting of just 32 lines.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I lot of people like python, so it would be nice to have python object support built into Pd, and also, CLR/C#, java, etc. via Thomas' loader patch.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But I haven't been able to run a [py] object yet. Just instantiating [py] immediately crashes Pd with no errors. So python+pd is not ready for primetime. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>.hc</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Tahoma; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">____________________________________________________________________________</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Tahoma; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma">"Information wants to be free."</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Tahoma" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Tahoma"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>-Stewart Brand</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>