[PD-dev] pyx shell replacement

[Thomas Grill]

>

Hi Ben,

> Is there any flext/pyx magic for converting from python types to PD  
> types?
>
> The way I'm using shell has two cases:
>
> 1. it only returns a single number (cpu or memory usage)
>
> 2. it executes an xset command, and does not care about output.
>
> So for now I'm assuming these cases.
>
> Ideally it would be nice if a command output this: "0 10 0.3" then
> outlet would send a list of three floats. "0 dog" as a message of a
> float and a symbol etc..
>

this is done exactly like this by the py/pyext external.
Attached is a patch and a script that can act as a shell replacement.

gr~~~


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