[PD] Scripting

Frank Barknecht barknech at ph-cip.uni-koeln.de
Mon Feb 25 14:04:08 CET 2002


mark hat gesagt: // mark wrote:

> I gave some serious thought to the scripting thing last night. I am thinking
> of building a "python" external that would allow simple scripts - you
> would make make an object:
> 
> 	py scriptname
> 
> which would take a python class that is similar in structure to the external
> "class" structure used by externals currently - obviously a bit more simple.
> No DSP of course (can't imagine it would be vaguely fast enough).
> Python is a good fit with PD I belive - it does good list type
> manipulation (in fact it will be easy to write a set of list
> manipulation externals which I have been wanting for a while now) and
> its got some quite nifty features. Oh and I want to learn it which
> strikes me as a good a reason as any ;-)

I like the idea very much. Larry Troxler started something similar
with his PD-Scheme external, maybe you can get some inspiration here
(http://www.westnet.com/~lt/pd/). Python is not that far away from
Scheme in some regards. I would probably prefer Python as a scripting
language, as I know this a lot better than I know Scheme. I know Perl even
better, but I am always happy *not* having to write in Perl anymore ;)

bye,
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