[PD] Are there alternative means of creating patches besides the graphical editor?

[João Pais]

there's also pdlua, which is much easier to build than py. if you want to  
learn lua, it works well. the package brings some example patches.  
http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org/cm/2008-06-19_pdlua-0.5_released.html

> HI,
>
> Morgan Packard wrote:
>> Hello there.
>> I'm interested in using PD. However, as someone who spends a lot of  
>> time with code, I'm actually a little afraid of the learning curve  
>> involved with the graphical programming language! I'd be much more  
>> comfortable creating my patches using, for example, a Python tool. Does  
>> such a programmatic PD patch generation tool exist? I can't imagine I'm  
>> the first person who's wanted such a thing.
> People will probably point you to csound or supercollider for your first  
> statement... Anyway the curve is not really so steep, dataflow is of  
> course a slightly different mindset, although if you are skilled at  
> coding that will nevertheless prove benefical.
>
> Regarding python, you might have a look at py/pyext [1]. I couldn't  
> successfully have it setup in Ubuntu, because it is strongly tied to a  
> particular python version. Something more 'flexible' IMHO would be nice,  
> ideally running directly within pd would be really nice, even at the  
> level of non-dsp abstractions to begin with (similarly to javscript in  
> MAX)... But this doesn't seem to be of much interest currently.
>
> Lorenzo
>
> [1] http://puredata.info/Members/thomas/py/
>> thanks,
>> -Morgan
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