random832 wrote on Tue Oct 7 22:33:23 CEST 2014
>On Tue, Oct 7, 2014, at 16:27, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>That's really interesting. I looked briefly at the page. How does your
>>>>python extension work with xywrite? Does it manipulate xywrite >>documents
>>or does it tie in at runtime with Xywrite somehow? If so, how >>does it do
>>this? Crossing the divide into a 16-bit app is pretty >>impressive. > I
>>assume that it uses temporary files (or pipes, don't know if DOS can
> do this), and that DOS programs can execute windows programs with int
> 21/4B.
Yup, files. In other words, rubber bands and chewing gum, but it works nicely.
Here's a short screen video of an "XPyL" routine that compiles a sorted list of
all unique words in a text file and reports average word length. Subject file
is the Gutenberg e-file of Moby-Dick, a 1.2MB text file. It's fast.
http://youtu.be/88isdo-Cch4
BTW, this is Python 3.2.5 running on W2K in VirtualBox.
Pal A.
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