Bob wrote: > IOW, making Python for Windows what AWK was for DOS :-) > I'm confused. http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html states "The Awk text-processing programming language is a useful and simple tool for manipulating text". I don't see anything like "access for example Outlook Express address lists, Word, ..." -- They are zillions of years in the history of computing apart, i.e. almost 40 :-) Some people think that Python owes something to AWK, though, for instance it had associative arrays already from its outset. Quite advanced for its time.
You are definitely right about it being very pipe-oriented; I did not think of it in that way. The analogy was just that awk became widely use as a scripting language. Windows was unheard of when it was developed, in fact it even predates PC-DOS, so Bill Gates had not even started on his learning curve. Now we have typical Windows app but a lousy scripting environment/language (I think), thus my original post. What you say below sounds great. I have under development a Python implementation of IBM's CMS Pipelines, which is in essence a "super AKW and Linux/Unix pipes" all in 1 package. Would you like to hear more? -- Indeed. Best, Goran _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
