[PD] communicating with the shell

[Jack]

I just want to say that i am very happy tu use [shell] in my patch.  
It is very useful to execute a PHP script for exemple.
++

Jack



Le 28 janv. 09 à 21:49, Andy Farnell a écrit :

>
>
> Both Lua and Python are great suggestions. But avoid the issue
> of fixing [shell]. It has been problematic for a long time and
> this is another opportunity to discover how to fix it, or
> deprecate/remove it altogether.
>
> I think there's something to be said for all Pd distros  _not_
> including [shell] for obvious reasons. If users want to open
> that door it should be an informed decision. That would happen
> if they could only use PyExt and PdLua. [shell] is very buggy,
> has it's day finally come to be fixed or dropped?
>
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:50:32 -0500
> patrick <puredata at 11h11.com> wrote:
>
>> another solution is with pyext.
>> in pdmtl abstractions it's under linux.process.pd (but i think it  
>> should
>> work on windows and mac (not tested)).
>>
>> import sys, os, time, signal, subprocess
>> try:
>>     import pyext
>> except:
>>     print "ERROR: This script must be loaded by the PD pyext  
>> external"
>>     sys.exit()
>>
>> class sub(pyext._class):
>>     """A simple script to start and stop process"""
>>
>>     # number of inlets and outlets
>>     _inlets=1
>>     _outlets=1
>>
>>     def __init__(self,*args):
>>         pass
>>
>>     def start_1(self,a):
>>         global process
>>         process = subprocess.Popen(str(a))
>>         self._outlet(1, 'opening '+str(a))
>>
>>     def stop_1(self,*a):
>>         os.kill(process.pid, signal.SIGTERM)
>>         self._outlet(1, 'stopping process '+str(process.pid))
>>
>>
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